pysqlite throwing exception?

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william tanksley wrote:
> I'm trying to modify an app I wrote a few months ago, but now it dies
> on startup (it worked before). The app loads the SQLite Media Monkey
> database, and crashes on its first query (when I try to get the number
> of podcasts). At the end of this post is a reduced version of the
> problem (which produces the same error).
> 
> Oh, this is Python 2.5 on Windows.
> 
> The following is the traceback for the reduced version:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\projects\podcasts\podstrand-mm\temp.py", line 16, in
> <module>
>     cursor.execute("select count(*) as count from songs")
> OperationalError: malformed database schema - near "VIRTUAL": syntax
> error
> 
> It's the same error I get while running this code in context.
> 
> The major change is that I upgraded version of MediaMonkey, and I'd
> think that might cause problems-- although all of my non-Python SQLite
> support apps have no problem (including running the same query).
> 
> Unfortunately, if pysqlite's been upgraded, I can't find it --
> pysqlite.org has been down the past 2 days.
> 
> -Wm
> ------------
> 
> import os
> import sqlite3
> 
> # Find the mediamonkey database.
> conn = sqlite3.connect(
>             os.path.join(os.environ['USERPROFILE'],
>                          'Local Settings',
>                          'Application Data',
>                          'MediaMonkey',
>                          'MM.DB')
>         )
> conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row # provide named columns in results
> # Ask mediamonkey for its data.
> cursor = conn.cursor()
> # Get the total number of songs.
> cursor.execute("select count(*) as count from songs")
> track_estimate = cursor.fetchall()[0]['count']
> 
I wonder whether it's complaining about the "as count" part because
"count" is the name of a function, although you do say that the same
query works elsewhere.