{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/61#issuecomment-533818697", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/61", "id": 533818697, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDUzMzgxODY5Nw==", "user": {"value": 49260, "label": "amjith"}, "created_at": "2019-09-21T18:09:01Z", "updated_at": "2019-09-21T18:09:28Z", "author_association": "CONTRIBUTOR", "body": "@witeshadow The library version doesn't have helpers around CSV (at least not from what I can see in the code). \r\n\r\nBut here's a snippet that makes it easy to insert from CSV using the library. \r\n\r\n```\r\nimport csv\r\nfrom sqlite_utils import Database\r\n\r\n# CSV Reader\r\n\r\ncsv_file = open(\"filename.csv\")   # open the csv file.\r\nreader = csv.reader(csv_file)  # Create a CSV reader\r\nheaders = next(reader)   # First line is the header\r\ndocs = (dict(zip(headers, row)) for row in reader)\r\n\r\n# Now you can use the `sqlite_utils` library. \r\n\r\ndb = Database(\"my_database.db\")\r\ndb[\"table_name\"].insert_all(docs)\r\n```\r\n\r\nThis snippet is adapted from reading the CLI source code on how it implements the csv option.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 491219910, "label": "importing CSV to SQLite as library"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/61#issuecomment-549432592", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/61", "id": 549432592, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU0OTQzMjU5Mg==", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2019-11-04T16:25:01Z", "updated_at": "2019-11-04T16:25:01Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "Yeah I've thought about this a bit and I'm OK leaving it out.\r\n\r\nThe core idea of `sqlite-utils` is that if you can create a list, iterator or generator of Python dictionaries you can efficiently insert those into a SQLite table.\r\n\r\nThe `--csv` function is actually implemented as just a few lines of code which turn that incoming CSV into a generator of dictionaries:\r\n\r\nhttps://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/169ea455fc1f1d5e5b6e44cb339ba7ffa9d49c31/sqlite_utils/cli.py#L364-L368\r\n\r\nI could turn this into a reusable helper function but since it wouldn't have anything to do with database inserts (it would just be a helper that turns a CSV into a generator of dictionaries) it doesn't feel like it fits well in the Python library section of this package.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 491219910, "label": "importing CSV to SQLite as library"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}