Insert Values from dictionary into sqlite database

Question

I cannot get my head around it. I want to insert the values of a dictionary into a sqlite databse.

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Answer 1

As written, your connector.execute() statement is missing the parameters argument.

It should be used like this:

connector.execute("insert into some_time values (?, ?)", ["question_mark_1", "question_mark_2"])

Unless you need the dictionary for later, I would actually use a list or tuple instead:

row = [
  data.get('id'),
  data.get('title'),
  data.get('tags'),
  data.get('latitude'),
  data.get('longitude'),
]

Then your insert statement becomes:

connector.execute("insert into DATAGERMANY values (NULL,?,?,?,?,?)", *row)

Why these changes?

• The NULL in the values (NULL, ...) is so the auto-incrementing primary key will work
• The list instead of the dictionary because order is important, and dictionaries don't preserve order
• The *row so the five-element row variable will be expanded (see here for details).
• Lastly, you shouldn't use dict as a variable name, since that's a built-in variable in Python.