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| 729818242 | MDExOlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0NTEwMjM1OTA5 | 189 | Allow iterables other than Lists in m2m records | 35681 | closed | 0 | 3 | 2020-10-26T18:47:44Z | 2020-10-27T16:28:37Z | 2020-10-27T16:24:21Z | CONTRIBUTOR | simonw/sqlite-utils/pulls/189 | I was playing around with sqlite-utils, creating a Roam Research dogsheep-style importer for Datasette, and ran into a slight snag. I wanted to use a generator to add an order column in an importer. It looked something like: ``` def order_generator(iterable, attr=None): if attr is None: attr = "order" order: int = 0 for i in iterable: i[attr] = order order += 1 yield i ``` When I used this with `insert_all` and other things, it worked fine--but it didn't work as the `records` argument to `m2m`. I dug into it, and sqlite-utils is explicitly checking if the records argument is a list or a tuple. I flipped the check upside down, and now it checks if the argument is a mapping. If it's a mapping, it wraps it in a list, otherwise it leaves it alone. (I get that it might not really make sense to put the order column on the second table. I changed my import schema a bit, and no longer have a real example, but maybe this change still makes sense.) The automated tests still pass, but I did not add any new ones. Let me know what you think! I'm really loving Datasette and its ecosystem; thanks for everything! | 140912432 | pull | {"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/189/reactions", "total_count": 0, "+1": 0, "-1": 0, "laugh": 0, "hooray": 0, "confused": 0, "heart": 0, "rocket": 0, "eyes": 0} | 0 |