# sqlite3 --- DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLite databases — Tutorial

> In this tutorial, you will create a database of Monty Python movies using basic !sqlite3 functionality.

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In this tutorial, you will create a database of Monty Python movies using basic !sqlite3 functionality. It assumes a fundamental understanding of database concepts, including cursors and transactions.

First, we need to create a new database and open a database connection to allow !sqlite3 to work with it. Call sqlite3.connect to create a connection to the database tutorial.db in the current working directory, implicitly creating it if it does not exist

import sqlite3 con = sqlite3.connect("tutorial.db")

The returned Connection object con represents the connection to the on-disk database.

In order to execute SQL statements and fetch results from SQL queries, we will need to use a database cursor. Call con.cursor() to create the Cursor

Now that we've got a database connection and a cursor, we can create a database table movie with columns for title, release year, and review score. For simplicity, we can just use column names in the table declaration -- thanks to the flexible typing_ feature of SQLite, specifying the data types is optional. Execute the CREATE TABLE statement by calling cur.execute(...)

cur.execute("CREATE TABLE movie(title, year, score)")

but SQLite versions older than 3.33.0 do not recognise that variant.

We can verify that the new table has been created by querying the sqlite_master table built-in to SQLite, which should now contain an entry for the movie table definition (see The Schema Table_ for details). Execute that query by calling cur.execute(...) , assign the result to res, and call res.fetchone() to fetch the resulting row

&gt;&gt;&gt; res = cur.execute("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master") &gt;&gt;&gt; res.fetchone() ('movie',)

We can see that the table has been created, as the query returns a tuple containing the table's name. If we query sqlite_master for a non-existent table spam, !res.fetchone will return None

&gt;&gt;&gt; res = cur.execute("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE name='spam'") &gt;&gt;&gt; res.fetchone() is None True

Now, add two rows of data supplied as SQL literals by executing an INSERT statement, once again by calling cur.execute(...)

cur.execute(""" INSERT INTO movie VALUES ('Monty Python and the Holy Grail', 1975, 8.2), ('And Now for Something Completely Different', 1971, 7.5) """) …

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