How to put a textfile into sqlite simply using Python API?

Question

I have a tab delimited file in the format:

sentenceID (sid)    documentID (scid)   sentenceText (sent)

E.g.

100004  100 即便您喜爱流连酒吧，也定然在这轻松安闲的一隅，来一场甜蜜沉醉的约会。
100005  100 您可以慢慢探究菜单上所有的秘密惊喜。

I want to put it into sqlite3 with the following schema:

CREATE TABLE sent (
    sid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
    scid INTEGER,
    sent TEXT,
    );

Is there a quick way to use the python API for sqlite (http://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html) to put them into a table?

I've been doing it as such:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sqlite3 as lite
import sys, codecs

con = lite.connect('mycorpus.db')

with con:    
    cur = con.cursor()
    cur.execute("CREATE TABLE Corpus(sid INT, scid INT, sent TEXT, PRIMARY KEY (sid))")
    for line in codecs.read('corpus.tab','r','utf8'):
        sid,scid,sent = line.strip().split("\t")
        cur.execute("INSERT INTO Corpus VALUES("+sid+","+scid+"'"+sent+"')")

Answer 1

Here's an example using unicodecsv module:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sqlite3

import unicodecsv


con = sqlite3.connect('mycorpus.db')
cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute("CREATE TABLE Corpus(sid INT, scid INT, sent TEXT, PRIMARY KEY (sid))")

with open('corpus.tab', 'rb') as input_file:
    reader = unicodecsv.reader(input_file, delimiter="\t")
    data = [row for row in reader]

cur.executemany("INSERT INTO Corpus (sid, scid, sent) VALUES (?, ?, ?);", data)
con.commit()

Also see:

• Reading a UTF8 CSV file with Python
• Importing a CSV file into a sqlite3 database table using Python

Hope that helps.