application using SQLite and then port the code to a larger database such as
PostgreSQL or Oracle.
-sqlite3 was written by Gerhard Häring and provides a SQL interface compliant
-with the DB-API 2.0 specification described by :pep:`249`.
+The sqlite3 module was written by Gerhard Häring. It provides a SQL interface
+compliant with the DB-API 2.0 specification described by :pep:`249`.
To use the module, you must first create a :class:`Connection` object that
represents the database. Here the data will be stored in the
-:file:`/tmp/example` file::
+:file:`example.db` file::
import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect('example.db')
.. method:: Cursor.execute(sql, [parameters])
- Executes an SQL statement. The SQL statement may be parametrized (i. e.
+ Executes an SQL statement. The SQL statement may be parameterized (i. e.
placeholders instead of SQL literals). The :mod:`sqlite3` module supports two
kinds of placeholders: question marks (qmark style) and named placeholders
(named style).