Re: Are there any issues dropping in the latest SQLite DLL into my Python installation?

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Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) wrote:
> I checked the archives and didn?t see anything about this.  And the
> pysqlite website seems to be experiencing some sort of failure that I
> was partly able to bypass using Google's archived pages so no looking at
> the Wiki right now.
> 
> I noticed that the released pysqlite is several versions behind relative
> to the bugfixes provided by the latest 3.3.8 DLL on Windows.  Will I be
> banishing myself to the 664th level of incompatibility hell by just
> dropping in the latest DLL into my Python DLLs folder?  I'm using Python
> 2.4 and 2.5 for development work and just getting up to speed with
> (py)sqlite.

No, you won't have any problems by doing so, because the SQLite binary API
is stable.

It was by design that you can replace the SQLite DLL in Python 2.5.
Unfortunately it seems to be hard to tell which version is the best one at
any point in time, for bugs fixed I've heard there are often new bugs. I'm
myself no heavy *user* of pysqlite, so I'm in no good position to judge
which SQLite version is best.

I will probably need a good argument for replacing the SQLite DLL for
Python 2.5.1 - is there a good one?

- -- Gerhard
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