sqlite3, OperationalError: no such column, shouldn't that ne a ProgrammingError?

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Wed Jun 17 06:06:26 EDT 2009


On 17/06/2009 5:15 PM, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 1:41 am, Gabriel Rossetti <gabriel.rosse... at arimaz.com>
>> wrote:
>>  
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I get an OperationalError with sqlite3 if I put the wrong column name,
>>> but shouldn't that be a ProgrammingError instead? I read PEP 249 and it
>>> says :
>>>
>>>     
>> [snip]
>>  
>>> and to me it sounds more like a programming error than an operational
>>> error.
>>>     
>>
>> How about showing us the code you used and the exact error message and
>> traceback?
>>
>>
>>   
> Well, the code isn't really relevant to the problem, but here is is :
> 
> import sqlite3
> 
> conn = sqlite3.connect("/tmp/test.db")
> conn.execute("SELECT name, value FROM local_param")
> 
> for row in conn:
>    print row
> 
> And I get :
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: local_param
> 
> 
> Which I think should be a ProgrammingError
> 
> If I fix the table name I but use a wrong column name I also get an 
> OperationalError

OK OK alright already ... I agree with you ... report a bug.

Cheers,
John



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