In this lesson, you will learn how to interact with a relational database by using a Python program. Python provides a standard API for interacting with a database, and by default comes with an implementation that allows you to easily interact with a SQLite database.
###Objectives ### By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Understand the basic concepts in the Python DB API.
- Understand how to make a connection to a database.
- Understand how to obtain a database cursor reference.
- Understand how to use the cursor to query databases and extract information.
Approximately 2 hours.
- Course IPython Notebook on Python database interactions
- Python DB API
When you have completed and worked through the above readings, please take the Week 11 Lesson 1 Assessment.