easy-db 0.7.6

Easy Python database interaction

easy_db

easy_db is a tool designed to quickly allow Python database interaction capabilities from a consolidated, intuitive user interface provided by the "DataBase" class.

Goals

• Make common database tasks very easy
• Intelligently handle different database types
• Provide intuitive, consistent, Pythonic methods for accessing data
• Provide good performance without requiring polished query code
• Expose database connection and cursor to users wanting fine-grained control
• Just get the data into Python so we can use it!

Quick Start

Let's first connect to a SQLite database.

import easy_db
db = easy_db.DataBase('test_sqlite3_db.db')

Now let's see what tables are available in this database.

tables = db.table_names()

Table columns and types are simple to investigate.

print(db.table_columns_and_types('example_table'))

Let's pull all of the data from a table. We could start with something like "SELECT * ..." but this is way more fun:

data = db.pull_table('example_table')

Note that the table/query data is returned as a list of dictionaries with column names as dictionary keys.

• Pro Tip: If desired, a Pandas dataframe of the same form as the database table can be easily created from this data structure using:

import pandas
df = pandas.DataFrame(data)

Now perhaps we have an Access database and would like to pull in a table from our SQLite database. easy_db makes this quick and easy and gracefully handles the nuances of dealing with the different databases.

import easy_db

db = easy_db.DataBase('test_sqlite3_db.db')
db_2 = easy_db.DataBase('test_access_db.accdb')

db_2.copy_table(db, 'example_table')

Thanks for checking out easy_db, and please take a look at the methods of the DataBase class if you'd like to see what other capabilities are currently available!

License

MIT