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authorPetri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org>2012-02-16 19:39:03 (GMT)
committerPetri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org>2012-02-16 19:39:03 (GMT)
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sqlite3: Fix documentation errors concerning Cursor.rowcount
Closes #13995.
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@@ -543,18 +543,17 @@ Cursor Objects
attribute, the database engine's own support for the determination of "rows
affected"/"rows selected" is quirky.
- For ``DELETE`` statements, SQLite reports :attr:`rowcount` as 0 if you make a
- ``DELETE FROM table`` without any condition.
-
For :meth:`executemany` statements, the number of modifications are summed up
into :attr:`rowcount`.
As required by the Python DB API Spec, the :attr:`rowcount` attribute "is -1 in
case no ``executeXX()`` has been performed on the cursor or the rowcount of the
- last operation is not determinable by the interface".
+ last operation is not determinable by the interface". This includes ``SELECT``
+ statements because we cannot determine the number of rows a query produced
+ until all rows were fetched.
- This includes ``SELECT`` statements because we cannot determine the number of
- rows a query produced until all rows were fetched.
+ With SQLite versions before 3.6.5, :attr:`rowcount` is set to 0 if
+ you make a ``DELETE FROM table`` without any condition.
.. attribute:: Cursor.lastrowid