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Add a proxy property for the autocommit property on sqlite3.Connection objects.

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I want autocommit=False as suggested by the sqlite3 docs (see docs). I also want to set PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL. The issue is that I can't change the journal_mode when in a transaction, which is always the case when autocommit=False. So the solution is to set the autocommit property after setting the journal_mode. This works fine in sqlite3, but aiosqlite doesn't have the property.

I can work around this by simply reaching into the aiosqlite.Connection object and accessing the _conn attribute, but this is clearly not ideal.

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amyreese commented Feb 3, 2025

Looks like this is a new feature in sqlite for Python 3.12. Can you update this to raise an exception accordingly so that mypy passes cleanly? Also, a simple test case would be appreciated (and I'd be ok with something like @skipIf(sys.version_info < (3,12))).

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Mypy fails because this is a 3.12 feature:

python -m mypy -p aiosqlite
aiosqlite/core.py:246: error: "Connection" has no attribute "autocommit"  [attr-defined]
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 10 source files)

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It turns out this property is actually a bit difficult to support. With the test,

    @skipIf(sys.version_info < (3, 12), "3.12 sqlite3 library feature")
    async def test_autocommit_property(self):
        async with aiosqlite.connect(TEST_DB) as db:
            self.assertEqual(db.autocommit, db._conn.autocommit)

I get sqlite3.ProgrammingError: SQLite objects created in a thread can only be used in that same thread. The object was created in thread id <> and this is thread id <>. I'm not sure why this behaves differently from the other proxied properties (maybe because it can change the connection state (but some of the other properties can do that too ?)). What should be done here, @amyreese?

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