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

result sets have a description that you can get some information from. It reveals some basic metadata like column name and number of columns.

>>> rs = c.execute('''SELECT * FROM news WHERE 1=0''');
>>> dir(rs)
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__format__',  
'__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__new__',  
'__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__',
'__str__', '__subclasshook__', 'arraysize', 'close', 'connection',
**'description'**, 'execute', 'executemany', 'executescript', 'fetchall',
'fetchmany', 'fetchone', 'lastrowid', 'next', 'row_factory',
'rowcount', 'setinputsizes', 'setoutputsize']



>>> print(rs.description)
(('id', None, None, None, None, None, None), 
('imageUrl', None, None, None, None, None, None), 
('headline', None, None, None, None, None, None), 
('who', None, None, None, None, None, None))