From: Erlend E. Aasland Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 21:11:52 +0000 (+0200) Subject: gh-96810: Clarify for which statements sqlite3 implicitly opens transactions (#96832) X-Git-Tag: v3.12.0a1~405 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=16c33a9676e2f3ef330d09f2ab515c56636fa09f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git gh-96810: Clarify for which statements sqlite3 implicitly opens transactions (#96832) --- diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst index a99c0b9216b9..e2774a502403 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst @@ -2274,7 +2274,8 @@ If the connection attribute :attr:`~Connection.isolation_level` is not ``None``, new transactions are implicitly opened before :meth:`~Cursor.execute` and :meth:`~Cursor.executemany` executes -``INSERT``, ``UPDATE``, ``DELETE``, or ``REPLACE`` statements. +``INSERT``, ``UPDATE``, ``DELETE``, or ``REPLACE`` statements; +for other statements, no implicit transaction handling is performed. Use the :meth:`~Connection.commit` and :meth:`~Connection.rollback` methods to respectively commit and roll back pending transactions. You can choose the underlying `SQLite transaction behaviour`_ —