[Python-Dev] Bug in the DELETE statement in sqlite3 module

Piotr Duda duda.piotr at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 11:25:53 EDT 2016


This is not a bug, this is correct behavior of any sql database.

2016-06-15 8:40 GMT+02:00 ninostephen mathew <ninosm12 at gmail.com>:
> Respected Developer(s),
> while writing a database module for one of my applications in python I
> encountered something interesting. I had a username and password field in my
> table and only one entry which was  "Admin" and "password". While debugging
> I purposefully deleted that record. Then I ran the same statement again. To
> my surprise, it got execute. Then I ran the statement to delete the user
> "admin" (lowercase 'a') which does not exist in the table. Surprisingly
> again is got executed even though the table was empty. What I expected was
> an error popping up. But nothing happened.  I hope this error gets fixed
> soon. The code snippet is given below.
>
> self.cursor.execute(''' DELETE FROM Users WHERE username =
> ?''',(self.username,))
>
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