SQLite

Also see How to show table schema for SQLite3 table on the command line

Use this function to find the table schema of a SQLite3 table in Python:

def sqlite_table_schema(conn, name):
    """Return a string representing the table's CREATE"""
    cursor = conn.execute("SELECT sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE name=?;", [name])
    sql = cursor.fetchone()[0]
    cursor.close()
    return sql

Usage example:

print(sqlite_table_schema(conn, 'commands'))

Full example:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect('/usr/share/command-not-found/commands.db')

def sqlite_table_schema(conn, name):
    cursor = conn.execute("SELECT sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE name=?;", [name])
    sql = cursor.fetchone()[0]
    cursor.close()
    return sql

print(sqlite_table_schema(conn, 'commands'))

which prints

CREATE TABLE "commands" 
           (
            [cmdID] INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL,
            [pkgID] INTEGER NOT NULL,
            [command] TEXT,
            FOREIGN KEY ([pkgID]) REFERENCES "pkgs" ([pkgID])
           )

Problem:

You are trying to run a simple SQL query with placeholders on a SQLite3 database, e.g.:

name = "mytable"
conn.execute("SELECT sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE name=?;", name)

But you get an exception like this:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ProgrammingError                          Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-55-e385cf40fd72> in <module>
      1 name = "mytable"
----> 2 conn.execute("SELECT sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name=?;", name)

ProgrammingError: Incorrect number of bindings supplied. The current statement uses 1, and there are 7 supplied.

Solution:

You need to use a list as the second argument to conn.execute(...)!

Since you only gave the function a string, the string is being interpreted as list of characters.

In our example from above, you just need to wrap name in square brackets to read [name]:

name = "mytable"
conn.execute("SELECT sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE name=?;", [name])