Translating Perl to Python

Question

I found this Perl script while migrating my SQLite database to mysql

I was wondering (since I don\'t know Perl) how could one rewrite this in Python?

Bonus point

Answer 1

Here's a pretty literal translation with just the minimum of obvious style changes (putting all code into a function, using string rather than re operations where possible).

import re, fileinput

def main():
  for line in fileinput.input():
    process = False
    for nope in ('BEGIN TRANSACTION','COMMIT',
                 'sqlite_sequence','CREATE UNIQUE INDEX'):
      if nope in line: break
    else:
      process = True
    if not process: continue
    m = re.search('CREATE TABLE "([a-z_]*)"(.*)', line)
    if m:
      name, sub = m.groups()
      line = '''DROP TABLE IF EXISTS %(name)s;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS %(name)s%(sub)s
'''
      line = line % dict(name=name, sub=sub)
    else:
      m = re.search('INSERT INTO "([a-z_]*)"(.*)', line)
      if m:
        line = 'INSERT INTO %s%s\n' % m.groups()
        line = line.replace('"', r'\"')
        line = line.replace('"', "'")
    line = re.sub(r"([^'])'t'(.)", r"\1THIS_IS_TRUE\2", line)
    line = line.replace('THIS_IS_TRUE', '1')
    line = re.sub(r"([^'])'f'(.)", r"\1THIS_IS_FALSE\2", line)
    line = line.replace('THIS_IS_FALSE', '0')
    line = line.replace('AUTOINCREMENT', 'AUTO_INCREMENT')
    print line,

main()

Answer 2

all of scripts on this page can't deal with simple sqlite3:

PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
CREATE TABLE Filename (
  FilenameId INTEGER,
  Name TEXT DEFAULT '',
  PRIMARY KEY(FilenameId) 
  );
INSERT INTO "Filename" VALUES(1,'');
INSERT INTO "Filename" VALUES(2,'bigfile1');
INSERT INTO "Filename" VALUES(3,'%gconf-tree.xml');

None were able to reformat "table_name" into proper mysql's `table_name` . Some messed up empty string value.

Answer 3

Based on http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/regex.html ...

1. Replace $line =~ /.*/ with re.search(r".*", line).
2. $line !~ /.*/ is just !($line =~ /.*/).
3. Replace $line =~ s/.*/x/g with line=re.sub(r".*", "x", line).
4. Replace $1 through $9 inside re.sub with \1 through \9 respectively.
5. Outside a sub, save the return value, i.e. m=re.search(), and replace $1 with the return value of m.group(1).
6. For "INSERT INTO $1$2\n" specifically, you can do "INSERT INTO %s%s\n" % (m.group(1), m.group(2)).

Answer 4

Real issue is do you know actually how to migrate the database? What is presented is merely a search and replace loop.

Answer 5

Here is a slightly better version of the original.

#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010; # for s/\K//;

while( <> ){
  next if m'
    BEGIN TRANSACTION   |
    COMMIT              |
    sqlite_sequence     |
    CREATE UNIQUE INDEX
  'x;

  if( my($name,$sub) = m'CREATE TABLE \"([a-z_]*)\"(.*)' ){
    # remove "
    $sub =~ s/\"//g; #"
    $_ = "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS $name;\nCREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $name$sub\n";

  }elsif( /INSERT INTO \"([a-z_]*)\"(.*)/ ){
    $_ = "INSERT INTO $1$2\n";

    # " => \"
    s/\"/\\\"/g; #"
    # " => '
    s/\"/\'/g; #"

  }else{
    # '' => \'
    s/\'\'/\\\'/g; #'
  }

  # 't' => 1
  s/[^\\']\K\'t\'/1/g; #'

  # 'f' => 0
  s/[^\\']\K\'f\'/0/g; #'

  s/AUTOINCREMENT/AUTO_INCREMENT/g;
  print;
}

Answer 6

I am not sure what is so hard to understand about this that it requires a snide remark as in your comment above. Note that <> is called the diamond operator. s/// is the substitution operator and // is the match operator m//.