Question

For some reason I can’t find a way to get the equivalents of sqlite’s interactive shell commands:

.tables .dump 

using the Python sqlite3 API.

Is there anything like that?

Answer 1

You can fetch the list of tables and schemata by querying the SQLITE_MASTER table:

sqlite> .tab job         snmptarget  t1          t2          t3         sqlite> select name from sqlite_master where type = 'table'; job t1 t2 snmptarget t3  sqlite> .schema job CREATE TABLE job (     id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,     data VARCHAR ); sqlite> select sql from sqlite_master where type = 'table' and name = 'job'; CREATE TABLE job (     id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,     data VARCHAR )