How to connect to an SQLite3 database using Python
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Every time you will try to connect to an SQLite database, the sqlite3.connect() method will either look for the file or create it.
Here is the code
import sqlite3
con = sqlite3.connect('example.db')Congratulations! You now know how to connect to an SQLite3 Database.
You will need to know how to execute an SQL query against the database.
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