Python Sqlite3 Get Sqlite Connection path

Question

Given an sqlite3 connection object, how can retrieve the file path to the sqlite3 file?

Answer 1

We can use the PRAGMA database_list command.

cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute("PRAGMA database_list")
rows = cur.fetchall()

for row in rows:
    print(row[0], row[1], row[2])

The third parameter (row[2]) is the file name of the database. Note that there could be more databases attached to SQLite engine.

$ ./list_dbs.py 
0 main /home/user/dbs/test.db
2 movies /home/user/dbs/movies.db

The above is a sample output of a script that contains the Python code.