Using Python’s Built-In Database with sqlite3

A fully featured SQL database called SQLite comes bundled with your Python programming language install. In case you haven’t used SQLite before, it’s a SQL database engine that stores all your table and row data in a single file. SQLite pervades software today: it comes with every Android and iOS phone, all the major web browsers, inside PHP, all Macs, and so forth.[58]

You can use Python’s sqlite3 standard library module to create a SQLite database, connect to it, and write and read contents from it.

What Does SQLite Do Well?

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