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

Assuming the name of the database is my_db and the name of the table is my_table, to get the name of the columns and the datatypes:

con = sqlite.connect(my_db)
cur = con.cursor()
query =  "pragma table_info({})".format(my_table)
table_info = cur.execute(query).fetchall()

It returns a list of tuples. Each tuple has the order, name of the column and data type.