Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > SQLite, in whatever incarnation, is a "file server" database. There > is no separate database server running -- each application is linked > directly to the code that opens and processes the database file(s). > > If SQLite is supplied with the impending Python 2.5, then the > code/library to access the database file is included. If one is running > Python 2.4, then one needs to obtain the third-party pysqlite package -- > which, as I recall, includes the runtime library that does the database > file work. > > The only reason, then, to download the stand-alone SQLite package > (not the python package) would be to obtain the command line query/admin > tool.
Thanks, that was a great response that pretty much covered everything I was wondering. I would need pysqlite right now (2.4), or sqlite3 (2.5), and I don't necessarily need the command line program if I'm using Python as an interface. What is really confusing is that I did a search for 'sqlite' in my Ubuntu repositories and it came up with entries like this: python2.4-pysqlite1.1 python interface to SQLite 3 python2.4-pysqlite2 python interface to SQLite 3 python2.4-pysqlite python interface to SQLite 2 python-pysqlite1.1 python interface to SQLite 3 python-pysqlite2 python interface to SQLite 3 python-sqlite python interface to SQlite 2 Needless to say, the numbering had me banging my head against my desk. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
