Question

I’m trying to setup a local database on my laptop using python. I saw the tutorial on the internet and need to know few things before I get onto this:-

import sqlite3
    conn = sqlite3.connect('example.db')

    c = conn.cursor()

    # Create table
    c.execute('''CREATE TABLE stocks
                 (date text, trans text, symbol text, qty real, price real)''')

    # Insert a row of data
    c.execute("INSERT INTO stocks VALUES ('2006-01-05','BUY','RHAT',100,35.14)")
    conn.commit()
    c.close()

In the above code, The data is inserted manually. But I have .csv file in my local drive and the data in that file is separated by space.

how do i insert the data in that file into the database? Also, I would like to extract data after that in excel format. Is it possible?

Thanks,
Mahi

Answer 1

Use the csv module to read data from a CSV file. It has “dialect” settings that allow you to specify the column separator and quoting style. I recommend using the csv.DictReader class to read in your data, since it allows you to refer to the read-in data by name.