Merge branch 'master' of github.com-pybites:pybites/100DaysOfCode

Author: bbelderbos

025/gen_testdb.py

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+#!python3
+#generator to create an sqlite3 test database file with the name of your choice
+
+#TODO - expand functionality to allow user specification of table name, number of cols, col names and types.
+
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+import sqlite3
+
+name = ""
+
+@contextmanager
+def create_db(name):
+	try:
+		conn = sqlite3.connect('%s.db' % name)
+		cursor = conn.cursor()
+		yield cursor
+	finally:
+		conn.close()
+
+
+def prompt_for_name():
+	name = input("What would you like to name your test db file?: ")
+	return name
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	name = prompt_for_name()
+	with create_db(name) as cursor:
+		cursor.execute("""CREATE TABLE test_table
+						(col1 TEXT, col2 TEXT, col3 TEXT, col4 INT)
+						""")
+		print('%s.db has been created' % name)

LOG.md

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 | 022 | Apr 20, 2017 | [create and paste #Amazon affiliation link to clipboard #pyperclip @AlSweigart](022) | nice little utility to copy an take Amazon link from clipboard, convert it into an affiliation link and paste it back to clipboard |
 | 023 | Apr 21, 2017 | [use Counter to count the most common words in a file](023) | we did some time ago, collections module is awesome |
 | 024 | Apr 22, 2017 | [generate color hex codes from random RGBs and color terminal text](024) | nice play with generators, RGB to hex with format, and colorizing the terminal with the [colored](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colored) package. This could be useful for future cli apps | 
-| 025 | Apr 23, 2017 | [TITLE](025) | LEARNING |
+| 025 | Apr 23, 2017 | [Simple test #database generator script #python #sqlite #contextmanager](025) | Script to generate a quick, test sqlite3 database with 1 table and 3 columns. Can be customised and expanded to suit your needs. Definitely useful for playing around with persistent data. |
 | 026 | Apr 24, 2017 | [TITLE](026) | LEARNING |
 | 027 | Apr 25, 2017 | [TITLE](027) | LEARNING |
 | 028 | Apr 26, 2017 | [TITLE](028) | LEARNING |