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Looks like it just bundles a full build of the sqlite shared library, along with some kind of gross hacks. It bundles pysqlite2, which notably is missing a ton of features and improvements from upstream. I'll just compile my own, thanks...

[patelajay285]

Hi @coleifer, I'll disagree, I'm the author. I don't think they are gross hacks, just a more sensible default configuration. In fact, I used a lot of your advice from your blog post https://charlesleifer.com/blog/going-fast-with-sqlite-and-py... while making this library.

Fair enough if you want to compile your own version, but there's a lot of people and Python devs who don't know how / won't go through the effort and that's what this project is for.

It's also a work in progress and not meant to be released yet. Shoot me an e-mail [e-mail] if you have suggestions for how to improve it.

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The advice in my post that you linked can be supplemented by this:

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/compiling-sqlite-for-use-with-...

Describes several handy ways to compile sqlite for use with python (2 or 3), as a system-wide shared library or compiled directly into the python module. This can also be applied to sqlcipher, etc.

If you don't know how to compile sqlite, I'd argue that you have no business trying to use it's more advanced features. How can you tune or optimize something you don't understand?

Furthermore, your library is stale. Anyone using it is dependent on you to merge in upstream changes constantly. And based on what I saw, it's already well out of date.

[patelajay285]

Yes, I've seen that post as well. Thanks! It's good advice.

>> If you don't know how to compile sqlite, I'd argue that you have no business trying to use it's more advanced features. How can you tune or optimize something you don't understand?

I'm not sure I agree with that, some people understand the advanced features but have a miserable time with compilers and compiling something like SQLite. There's a lot of great engineers with Python and SQL expertise that just don't know how to compile a C project. That might sound contradictory, but it's just something a lot of engineers still don't do day to day since people are using a lot of scripted languages (Node/Python/Ruby).

For example, there's probably a lot of people who want to use the JSON1 or FTS5 modules with SQLite in Python. That doesn't require advanced knowledge, but requires them to re-compile SQLite!

>> Furthermore, your library is stale. Anyone using it is dependent on you to merge in upstream changes constantly. And based on what I saw, it's already well out of date.

It is stale, I agree. But it's still a WIP. This was posted here early. My plan is to pull in changes from the upstream sqlite module with the latest CPython 2.7 tag and latest CPython 3 tag in the source.