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               A DB API v2.0 compatible interface to SQLite
                       Embedded Relational Database.
                          Copyright (c) 2001-2002
                    Michael Owens <mike@mikesclutter.com>

Overview:

This is an extension module for the SQLite embedded relational database. It
tries to conform to the Python DB-API Specification v2.0 as far as possible.
One problem is that SQLite returns all columns as as text. As of June, 2002,
Richard Hipp, the author of SQLite, has agreed to add support in SQLite for
returning column data types, so this should not be a permanent problem.

Installation:

This module uses the standard Python method for installation.
For additional information, especially regarding Windows installation and
various compiler issues, please refer to the online documentation
(http://pysqlite.sourceforge.net/documentation/), or the latext
documentation included with this distribution.

Thanks:

This module was inspired by MySQLdb Python interface to MySQL. Much of the
initial source code related to Python extension writing in this module was
done with the help of MySQLdb. Many thanks to Andy Dustman for his excellent
work with MySQLdb, as well as Gerhard Häring <gerhard.haering@gmx.de> and
William Trenker <wtrenker@shaw.ca> for their extensive contributions to both
coding and managing the project. Thanks to D. Richard Hipp, for writing
SQLite. It is a work of art and a wonderful contribution to the open source
community.

I hope this might help others in the same way. As they say at SuSE: Have a
lot of fun. 
