APSW SQLite query explainer. Today I found out about APSW's (Another Python SQLite Wrapper, in constant development since 2004) apsw.ext.query_info() function, which takes a SQL query and returns a very detailed set of information about that query - all without executing it.
It actually solves a bunch of problems I've wanted to address in Datasette - like taking an arbitrary query and figuring out how many parameters (?
) it takes and which tables and columns are represented in the result.
I tried it out in my console (uv run --with apsw python
) and it seemed to work really well. Then I remembered that the Pyodide project includes WebAssembly builds of a number of Python C extensions and was delighted to find apsw on that list.
... so I got Claude to build me a web interface for trying out the function, using Pyodide to run a user's query in Python in their browser via WebAssembly.
Claude didn't quite get it in one shot - I had to feed it the URL to a more recent Pyodide and it got stuck in a bug loop which I fixed by pasting the code into a fresh session.
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