This is a small, not to say: tiny, wrapper around sqsh with focus on further processing in Python.

PySQSH is a wrapper for sqsh and thus requires a running version of sqsh.

pip install git+https://github.com/beckstefan/pysqsh.git#pysqsh

Making queries is rather simple. Depending on your .sqshrc and your Interfaces, you simply need to pass to SQL statement -- of course including with the go after a newline.

import sqsh
sql = "select row1 from table where row2 = 'spam' \n go"
try:
    s = sqsh.call(sql)
except Exception as e:
    # Do something with the exception ...
    pass
for r in s.rows:
    # Do something with r

The module comes with the following function calls:

• call
• raw
• strip

They all take the same parameters, but their response objects differ.

After successful execution, you get a subclass of an SQSHResponse back. Below you find its attributes.

• result The output of sqsh as plain text

• rows The result is splitted into rows. This is nice, if you have a single column.
• table The result as cells, i.e. list of list. In case there's no output, this is the list containing the empty list [[]]
• first_row The first row of the result. This is useful if have just one row anyway.
• first_cell The first cell of the result. This is useful if you want just a single result.

To this achieve we use sqsh style -mbcp which strips basically everything, but is rather good for processing.

• affected_rows The number of affected rows as integer.
• affected_row_as_text The original output of sqsh about the affected rows.

No special attributes, but we called with sqsh with -h optiona to strip header and footer.

In case that sqsh returns anything to stderr, an exception will be raised. Further exceptions may rise form the underlying subprocess module, hence see that documentation.

You can pass to sqsh:

• encoding Encoding to use for input and output of sqsh - default is iso-8859-1
• width Width of output of sqsh. Default is 25000 which should be enough for most use cases. Increase if you expect very long lines.
• timeout Maximum time to wait for sqsh to finish. Default is 90 seconds.

Then you can pass extra arguments to sqsh.call which will be directly passed to sqsh without any further checks! By design of sqsh, you can safely pass passwords with -P as sqsh will obscure the value for e.g. ps.

PySQSH is, as stated above, a very simple wrapper around sqsh. Internally, it calls subprocess.run and does some post-processing of the result.