On Saturday 17 March 2007 13:51, John Nagle wrote: > jim-on-linux wrote: > > On Friday 16 March 2007 18:23, Jerry Hill wrote: > >>On 3/16/07, jim-on-linux > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > >>>Below, the first select produces results > >>> but, after closing then re-opening the > >>> database the select produces an empty list. > >>> Anyone know the reason ?? > >> > >>When you first open a connection, you > >>implicitly begin a transaction. You need to > >>call con.commit() before you close the > >>connection, or your transaction will be > >> rolled back when you close() it. If don't > >> want to bother with transaction handling, > >> you can turn it off when you open the > >> connection, like this: con = > >> sqlite3.connect('myData', > >>isolation_level=None) > >> > >>See the Python Database API 2.0 PEP for more > >>details about the behavior required of DB-API > >>2.0 compliant interfaces: > >>http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/ > >> > >>-- > >>Jerry > > > > Thanks, this saves a lot of con.commit > > action. And the website is valuable. > > > > jim-on-linux > > Don't turn off atomic transactions, use > them. Otherwise, two copies of your program > running at the same time will probably not do > what you want. Just call "commit" at the end of > each transaction. > > John Nagle
Thanks I appreciate the help. jim-on-linux -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list