SQLite is quite SQL compliant

[Nobody]

On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:06:12 -0700, Ravi wrote:

> The documentation of the sqlite module at
> http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html says:
> 
> "...allows accessing the database using a nonstandard variant of the
> SQL..."
> 
> But if you see SQLite website they clearly say at
> http://sqlite.org/omitted.html that only very few of the SQL is not
> implemented. I think docs should clarify on that. Many users might be
> scared of using SQLite just because of this.

I suspect that it's referring to the fact that SQLite is dynamically
typed. IOW, the problem isn't with features being omitted, but with
features not working how you would expect them to.