Hi all. I'm very new to all of this, so I'm not necessarily looking for
over-the-top advice, although anything you tell me will be appreciated. I
just want to create a simple script (in Python, using sqlite3) that reads a
"|" delineated text file and extracts the following bits of information
from each line in the file: a date, a time, a song artist, and a song title.
The point is that I want to create a database storing these four pieces of
information and then later be able to retrieve the information in multiple
ways, such as selecting a date and song and seeing how many times it was
played that day, or selecting a date and person, or just a song, or just a
person, etc.
So I'm wondering what the best way to create such a database would be.
Should each of those four pieces of information be an entry in the table?
In case anyone knows Python (although I'm sure you can probably all read
this anyway), here's what I came up with so far, just to see if it works,
which it does:
import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect('song_db')
c = conn.cursor()
c.execute('create table songs (date text, time text, artist text, title
text)')
with open('song_list.txt') as song_file:
for line in song_file:
entries = tuple(line.strip().split('|'))
c.execute('insert into songs values (?, ?, ?, ?)', entries)
conn.commit
c.close()
This creates a table with as many entries as there are lines in the file.
Is there a more efficient way?
Thanks!
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