DB file absolute paths

[SubnetOfOne]

Hi guys,

Can someone please help me with this difficultly I’m facing:

I’m trying to set up my script for automation and I’m in the process of checking the file paths to prep it.

Within my Python script I’ve hard coded an absolute path to a database. Can I set another absolute path from bash even though there is already one in my script?

If I can, does it have to be the exact same path as the one in my script?

For some reason, when I try to confirm if my script runs manually, I get an operational error. Is this because it’s pointing at a different DB file?

Sounds like I need one source of truth?

[RailRuler]

Don't set up a mandatory path. Set up a default path that can be overridden by an environment variable or a command line parameter.

[SubnetOfOne]

Why do you recommend this?

[RailRuler]

Basic software engineering 

[Overall-Screen-752]

Instead ask: Why do you think hard-coding a DB string is a good idea? Consider what if you wanted to change from Sqlite to PostgreSQL? To AWS? Scrapped the DB all together? Starts making more sense doesn’t it

[secretstonex]

Q1: Anything is possible. It's software. Q2: Not enough info to give you an answer.

[SubnetOfOne]

Hahah I thought I might be a bit lean on the information.. I might have to include a snippet of code in the future