Re: testing for table existence

"Colin Barnette" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db.pysqlite.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have a function I use which returns a list of the table names via
the sqlite_master table, hope this helps!

    def list_tables(self):
        """ List all tables (Permanent and Temporary). """

        self.cur.execute("SELECT name FROM (SELECT * FROM
sqlite_master UNION ALL SELECT * FROM sqlite_temp_master) WHERE
type='table' ORDER BY name")
        tlist = self.cur.fetchall()

        return tlist

On 2/25/07, Eric S. Johansson <[email protected]> wrote:
> maybe this is also part of my naïveté with pysqlite but wouldn't your
> code want to test for table existence before creating it?  How would I
> do this?  I also know test then create is a race condition.  Should I do
> anything other than handle an exception?
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