Question

how to create a table with sha1 or md5 as table name in sqlite3 using python, i am getting Exception OperationalError saying unrecognized token, is there any alternate method

Answer 1

I’m assuming you’re using value of function like md5.hexdigest() as a table name. If so, then you need to take into account fact that hash value may start from a digit. SQLite doesn’t allow you to start table name from a digit. The simplest solution would be to add some kind of prefix, like:

>>> table_name = "table%s" % hashlib.sha1('blurp').hexdigest()
>>> print(table_name)
table5187399948bdcff4fa10220cd8509257567c6b5a