Simon Willison’s Weblog

17th December 2021

TIL Creating a minimal SpatiaLite database with Python — When writing a test for [datasette-leaflet-freedraw](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-leaflet-freedraw) I realized I didn't have a simple tiny recipe for creating an in-memory SpatiaLite database in Python. I came up with this:

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Posted 17th December 2021 at 11:57 pm

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