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Author rhunter
Recipients Jeremy Banks, Jim.Jewett, Mark.Bucciarelli, Ronny.Pfannschmidt, adamtj, asvetlov, aymeric.augustin, bkircher, bulb, dholth, flox, ghaering, monsanto, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhunter, scott.urban, torsten, tshepang, zzzeek
Date 2016-03-23.05:54:58
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Implicit transactions can also cause mysterious "database is locked" bugs, even when a large timeout is set on the connection. Many, many people are affected by this bug (search the web for "python sqlite database is locked").

The attached code demonstrates this bug and possible (unintuitive) fixes.

If there won't be a fix soon, then at least the documentation should note this quirky behavior.
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2016-03-23 05:54:59rhuntersetrecipients: + rhunter, ghaering, pitrou, Jeremy Banks, r.david.murray, zzzeek, asvetlov, flox, adamtj, dholth, torsten, monsanto, scott.urban, aymeric.augustin, tshepang, Ronny.Pfannschmidt, Mark.Bucciarelli, Jim.Jewett, bulb, bkircher
2016-03-23 05:54:59rhuntersetmessageid: <1458712499.46.0.684703667655.issue10740@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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