Is there a way to get a schema of a database from within python?

Question

I\'m trying to find out a way to find the names of tables in a database(if any exist). I find that from a sqlite cli I can use:

>.tables

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Answer 1

make the connection to the database

connection = connect_db('./database_name.db')

print the table names

table_names = [t[0] for t in connection.execute("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table';")]
print(table_names)