Python Sqlite3: INSERT INTO table VALUE(dictionary goes here)

Question

I would like to use a dictionary to insert values into a table, how would I do this?

import sqlite3

db = sqlite3.connect(\'local.db\')
cur = db.cursor()

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Answer 1

You could use named parameters:

cur.execute('INSERT INTO Media VALUES (NULL, :title, :type, :genre, :onchapter, :chapters, :status)', values)

This still depends on the column order in the INSERT statement (those : are only used as keys in the values dict) but it at least gets away from having to order the values on the python side, plus you can have other things in values that are ignored here; if you're pulling what's in the dict apart to store it in multiple tables, that can be useful.

If you still want to avoid duplicating the names, you could extract them from an sqlite3.Row result object, or from cur.description, after doing a dummy query; it may be saner to keep them around in python form near wherever you do your CREATE TABLE.