def create_database(): """ Uses BookParser to process the html book files into a data structure in memory then iterates through and stores in a sqlite file. """ conn = sqlite3.connect('test.db') cur = conn.cursor() create_table = """ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS words (word TEXT PRIMARY KEY, serialized_context_list TEXT) """ cur.execute(create_table) insert_row = """ INSERT OR REPLACE INTO words VALUES (?, ?) """ book_parser = BookParser() book_parser.initiate() for word, context_list in book_parser.get_full_dict().iteritems(): cur.execute(insert_row, (word.decode('utf-8'), json.dumps(context_list))) conn.commit() conn.close()