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Python Using Databases in Python Our Diary App Doing Data Entry

Posted by Julian Gu
Julian Gu
12,490 Points

peewee.DatabaseError: file is encrypted or is not a database

I get this output when I run my code on my local computer:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "diary.py", line 39, in <module>
    db.create_tables([Entry], safe=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/peewee.py", line 3855, in create_tables
    create_model_tables(models, fail_silently=safe)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/peewee.py", line 5294, in create_model_tables
    m.create_table(**create_table_kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/peewee.py", line 4966, in create_table
    if fail_silently and cls.table_exists():
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/peewee.py", line 4962, in table_exists
    return cls._meta.db_table in cls._meta.database.get_tables(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/peewee.py", line 4012, in get_tables
    'type = ? ORDER BY name;', ('table',))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/peewee.py", line 3775, in execute_sql
    self.commit()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/peewee.py", line 3598, in __exit__
    reraise(new_type, new_type(*exc_args), traceback)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/peewee.py", line 3768, in execute_sql
    cursor.execute(sql, params or ())
peewee.DatabaseError: file is encrypted or is not a database

I compared the code that I did in this script to the student one that we did in the previous stage and that didn't cause such problems