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Python Sqlite Copy Table From One Database To Another

The document discusses a Python script for copying a table from one SQLite database to another using the sqlite3 module. It highlights an issue where the source database is mistakenly opened twice, leading to an OperationalError due to attempting to write to a readonly database. A suggested solution is to modify the open_db function to use the 'nam' parameter instead of sys.argv[1].

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Python Sqlite Copy Table From One Database To Another

The document discusses a Python script for copying a table from one SQLite database to another using the sqlite3 module. It highlights an issue where the source database is mistakenly opened twice, leading to an OperationalError due to attempting to write to a readonly database. A suggested solution is to modify the open_db function to use the 'nam' parameter instead of sys.argv[1].

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Python sqlite copy table from one database to another


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I'm using python 2.7 with the builtin sqlite3 module on Windows XP. The code looks like the following:

3 #!/usr/bin/env python2

import sqlite3
import sys

def open_db(nam):
5 conn = sqlite3.connect(sys.argv[1])
# Let rows returned be of dict/tuple type
conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
print "Openned database %s as %r" % (nam, conn)
return conn

def copy_table(table, src, dest):


print "Copying %s %s => %s" % (table, src, dest)
sc = src.execute('SELECT * FROM %s' % table)
ins = None
dc = dest.cursor()
for row in sc.fetchall():
if not ins:
cols = tuple([k for k in row.keys() if k != 'id'])
ins = 'INSERT OR REPLACE INTO %s %s VALUES (%s)' % (table, cols,
','.join(['?'] * len(cols)))
print 'INSERT stmt = ' + ins
c = [row[c] for c in cols]
dc.execute(ins, c)

dest.commit()

src_conn = open_db(sys.argv[1])
dest_conn = open_db(sys.argv[2])

copy_table('audit', src_conn, dest_conn)

When I run this with db_copy.py src.db dest.db the source database was doubled. So I set the
source file attribute to readonly. I now get:

sqlite3.OperationalError: attempt to write a readonly database

It seems somewhere the source and destination database connections are mixed? I've been
debugging this for hours without finding the cause.

python sqlite pysqlite

asked May 12 '13 at 12:18


Ayman
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You are ignoring the nam parameter and using sys.argv[1] for all calls to open_db() :

3 def open_db(nam):
conn = sqlite3.connect(sys.argv[1])

This opens the first named database twice, as both src_conn and dest_conn . Use nam instead:

def open_db(nam):
conn = sqlite3.connect(nam)

answered May 12 '13 at 12:22


Martijn Pieters ♦
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