Can sqlite read gzipped databases?
Hi, I'd like to read a series of sqlite database files that have already been gzipped and was wondering if this can be done on the fly. In other words, can I avoid explicitly unzipping the file into another file, but instead get an SQL connection to the zip file either directly (can't see an option to do this) or to an object in memory resulting from unzipping, eg. (hypothetically); import gzip from sqlite3 import dbapi2 as sqlite data = gzip.GzipFile('Mydbase.db.gz','r') d = data.read() cnx = sqlite.connect(d) # or .connect(data) cur = cnx.cursor() etc The above of course doesn't work, but just to give you the idea. Thanks, Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Can sqlite read gzipped databases?
Gzipped files aren't a good random access medium. It's unlikely that anyone will implement this. John Nagle Paul Smith wrote: Hi, I'd like to read a series of sqlite database files that have already been gzipped and was wondering if this can be done on the fly. In other words, can I avoid explicitly unzipping the file into another file, but instead get an SQL connection to the zip file either directly (can't see an option to do this) or to an object in memory resulting from unzipping, eg. (hypothetically); import gzip from sqlite3 import dbapi2 as sqlite data = gzip.GzipFile('Mydbase.db.gz','r') d = data.read() cnx = sqlite.connect(d) # or .connect(data) cur = cnx.cursor() etc The above of course doesn't work, but just to give you the idea. Thanks, Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list