# Not referenced from the documentation, but builds the database file the other
# code snippets expect.

import sqlite3
import os

DB_FILE = "mydb"

if os.path.exists(DB_FILE):
   os.remove(DB_FILE)

con = sqlite3.connect(DB_FILE)
cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute("""
       create table people
       (
         name_last      varchar(20),
         age            integer
       )
       """)

cur.execute("insert into people (name_last, age) values ('Yeltsin',   72)")
cur.execute("insert into people (name_last, age) values ('Putin',     51)")

con.commit()

cur.close()
con.close()