Python sqlite3 and concurrency

Question

I have a Python program that uses the \"threading\" module. Once every second, my program starts a new thread that fetches some data from the web, and stores this data to my

Answer 1

Or if you are lazy, like me, you can use SQLAlchemy. It will handle the threading for you, (using thread local, and some connection pooling) and the way it does it is even configurable.

For added bonus, if/when you realise/decide that using Sqlite for any concurrent application is going to be a disaster, you won't have to change your code to use MySQL, or Postgres, or anything else. You can just switch over.