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Installing PySQLite

5th September 2003

Techno Weenie has a detailed guide to setting up PySQLite on boxes you don’t have root access to. SQLite looks ideal for small to medium sized applications so I can see this being really useful should I ever write something that uses it.

Posted 5th September 2003 at 9:32 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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