Can json.dumps create multiple lines

[Cecil Westerhof]

On Thursday  1 Dec 2016 23:58 CET, Peter Otten wrote:

> Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
>> On Thursday  1 Dec 2016 22:52 CET, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>
>>> Now I need to convert the database. But that should not be a big
>>> problem.
>>
>> I did the conversion with:
>> cursor.execute('SELECT tipID FROM tips')
>> ids = cursor.fetchall()
>> for id in ids:
>> id = id[0]
>> cursor.execute('SELECT tip from tips WHERE tipID = ?', [id])
>> old_value = cursor.fetchone()[0]
>> new_value = json.dumps(json.loads(old_value), indent = 0)
>> cursor.execute('UPDATE tips SET tip = ? WHERE tipID = ?',
>> [new_value, id])
>
> The sqlite3 module lets you define custom functions written in
> Python:
>
> db = sqlite3.connect(...)
> cs = db.cursor()
>
> def convert(s):
> return json.dumps(
> json.loads(s),
> indent=0
> )
>
> db.create_function("convert", 1, convert)
> cs.execute("update tips set tip = convert(tip)")

That is a lot better as what I did. Thank you.

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Cecil Westerhof
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