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Asked: 2026-05-14T22:02:01+00:00

I have a large sql dump file … with multiple CREATE TABLE and INSERT

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I have a large sql dump file … with multiple CREATE TABLE and INSERT INTO statements. Is there any way to load these all into a SQLAlchemy sqlite database at once. I plan to use the introspected ORM from sqlsoup after I’ve created the tables. However, when I use the engine.execute() method it complains: sqlite3.Warning: You can only execute one statement at a time.

Is there a way to work around this issue. Perhaps splitting the file with a regexp or some kind of parser, but I don’t know enough SQL to get all of the cases for the regexp.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Will

EDIT:
Since this seems important … The dump file was created with a MySQL database and so it has quite a few commands/syntax that sqlite3 does not understand correctly.

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  1. Editorial Team

    “or some kind of parser”
    I’ve found MySQL to be a great parser for MySQL dump files 🙂
    You said it yourself: “so it has quite a few commands/syntax that sqlite3 does not understand correctly.” Clearly then, SQLite is not the tool for this task.
    As for your particular error: without context (i.e. a traceback) there’s nothing I can say about it. Martelli or Skeet could probably reach across time and space and read your interpreter’s mind, but me, not so much.

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