Question

my application uses SQLite database for it’s data storage. Idelly, this database should reside on some network drive, let’s name it Z: (Windows XP’s “Map network drive” feature).

Application is being developed under Linux, with database locally stored. Here is a part of one module:

import sqlite3 as lite

con = lite.connect("base.db")

What would be the correct way to access database on Z: drive? Something along the lines of:

import sqlite3 as lite
import os

path = 'Z:\'
con = lite.connect(path+"base.db")

Answer 1

You should use os.path.join to create your path, since it will use the correct path seperator. Also, you can use os.name to check if you’re running on windows:

filename = 'base.db'

path = os.path.join('z:/', filename) if os.name == 'nt' else filename

con = lite.connect(path)

Nonetheless, you probably want to make the file location configurable to make it easier to develop/debug/deploy your application.