Ok, David, I see.

Anybody who wants to use sqlite seriously in existing releases can use apsw. It is not dbapi2 compliant, but it is complete and behaves like the underlying database.

I agree with Antoine and already mentioned I didn't like the current patch.

I think all that is needed is another property, say `autocommit_ddl`. For compatibility reasons it would default to `True` and when set to `False` the module would then begin transaction before any command, probably except `pragma` where it is sometimes problem and should not matter in other cases and `select` still subject to `isolation_level` and possibly fix of the related http://bugs.python.org/issue9924.

The second patch seems closer, but it still does not bypass the logic as I'd suggest.