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On 03/08/2015 14:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 02:02 pm, Dan Sommers wrote:
>
>> Well, I have at least some non-zero chance of reading and writing JSON
>> or XML by hand.  Can the same be said for a sqlite database?
>
> Real programmers edit their SQL databases directly on the hard drive platter
> using a magnetised needle and a steady hand.
>

I'd stick with SQLiteStudio or something similar if I were you.  The 
last time I tried the above, having consumed 10 bottles of Newcastle 
Brown, the results were disastrous.  I pricked my finger.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence