sqlite3 puzzle

[llanitedave]

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:36:51 AM UTC-8, Rob Day wrote:
> On 15 January 2013 07:09, llanitedave <llanitedave at veawb.coop> wrote:
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> > So I put the following test code in my initialization method:
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> >
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> >     # open database file
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> >     self.geologger_db = sqlite3.connect('geologger.mgc')
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> >     self.db_cursor = self.geologger_db.cursor()
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> >     self.foreign_key_status = self.db_cursor.execute("PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON")
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> >     self.foreign_key_status = self.foreign_key_status.fetchone()
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> >
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> >     print self.foreign_key_status
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> >
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> > I ran this several times while I was arranging the downstream queries, and each time it returned '(1,)', which means foreign keys is enabled.
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> >
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> > But I was using a variable named 'cmd1' as a placeholder until I changed the name to
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> > the more descriptive 'self.foreign_key_status'.  Since I made the name change, however,
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> > the code only returns 'None'.  Reverting to the previous variable name has no effect.
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> 
> Hmm - your code doesn't quite match up with the docs at
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> http://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html. That seems to suggest
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> that you should call fetchone() on the cursor, not on the result of
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> execute().
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> Does the following work?
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>     # open database file
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>     self.geologger_db = sqlite3.connect('geologger.mgc')
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>     self.db_cursor = self.geologger_db.cursor()
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>     self.db_cursor.execute("PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON")
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>     print self.db_cursor.fetchone()
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> --
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> Robert K. Day
> 
> robert.day at merton.oxon.org

Thanks for the suggestion, Rob, but that didn't make any difference.  I've never had an issue with putting the execute object into a variable and calling "fetch" on that variable.  

I can accept reality if it turns out that foreign keys simply isn't enabled on the Python distribution of sqlite, although I don't know why that should be the case.  I'm just curious as to why it worked at first and then stopped working.