Dropping a table

[ameliabob]

In all the examples they all seem to create a table before accessing it. How would I go about accessing one that has already been created the following code

	import sqlite3
	conn = sqlite3.connect('earnings.db')
cur = conn.cursor()
DROP TABLE closed
cur.execute('CREATE TABLE closed (rowId INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, nature TEXT)
	

This generates a Syntax Error with TABLE highlighted in Red.

If I remove the DROP line then I get the error that the table already exists

?????

[niche]

Do a 'SELECT * FROM closed' .  If no error, it's still there unless corrupted.

closed is not a reserved word, but close is.

 

[Ingolme]

You can't just mix SQL and Python, you have to put the SQL in a string and pass the string into a database method.

Try passing the "DROP TABLE" line as a string into the execute() method. 

[justsomeguy]

That's a syntax error because you wrote the SQL code in the middle of your python code.

[ameliabob]

Actually I am executing this from within the sqlite "idle" shell

[justsomeguy]

And inside the SQLite shell, you need to import the sqlite3 package?  I'm pretty sure you showed python code there.