I assume this will work in a similar fashion for Python? On Thu, Apr 6, 2017, at 03:24 PM, Simon Slavin wrote: > > On 6 Apr 2017, at 7:38pm, dave boland <dbola...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > "unconfigured means no tables, no fields, no nothing. With SQLite, it > > is possible to have an empty file, a database with a table but no > > fields, etc. The reason this concerns me is that I want to know what I > > have before connecting to a file and creating a new database when I did > > not intend to do that. So, what (and why) are the steps to test the > > database file to see what state it is in? > > Okay. If that’s the definition of 'unconfigured' you want, do what I > recommended in a previous post: > > First, use the PHP function "file_exists()" to check that the file > exists. > > If the file does exist use PHP to check it’s an actual database: > > fopen(path, 'rb') > fread(, 16) > fclose(). > > Then check those 16 bytes. They should be 'SQLite format 3\0'. The last > character is a 0x00 byte for a string terminator. If there are less then > 16 bytes, or if they don’t match that string then it’s not a "configured" > (by your definition) SQLite database. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users">sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users">sqlite-users@mailinglists">sqlite-users">sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users";>sqlite-users -- dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm
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