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Subject: Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:45:05 -0400
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:08:38 -0700 (PDT), Victor Hooi
<victorhooi@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>Hi,
>
>You're right, if the databse doesn't exist, the sqlite3 library will simply create it.
>
>Hmm, in that case, what is the Pythonic way to handle this then?
>
>If the database is new, then it won't have the table I need, and it will return something like:
>
>    sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: my_table
>
>I suppose I can try the query, and catch OperationalError, and if so, create the new schema then?
>
>However, that seems a bit ugly, as I'm guessing OperationalError could be caused by a number of other reasons?
>
>Should I perhaps be using some kind of version table as Burak Aslan suggested?
>
>Cheers,
>victor 
>

	I'd use the capabilities of the database engine to query it for any
existing schema. As shown in my prior post...
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