Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> I'm trying to dump a Firefox IndexDB sqlite file to text using Python 3.5.
>
>
> import sqlite3
> con = sqlite3.connect('foo.sqlite')
> with open('dump.sql', 'w') as f:
> for line in con.iterdump():
> f.write(line + '\n')
>
>
> The error I get is:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/sqlite3/dump.py", line 30, in _iterdump
> schema_res = cu.execute(q)
> sqlite3.DatabaseError: file is encrypted or is not a database
>
>
> If I open the file in a hex editor, it starts with:
>
> SQLite format 3
>
> and although I can see a few human readable words, the bulk of the file
> looks like noise.
I've seen that error message before:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2013-July/097022.html
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