Delete records in SQLite with Python

- [Instructor] Next,…I'm being asked to delete stage directions,…such as enter, exit, and others.…So, for example, in the database,…we can see Line 23 starts with Exit,…and what we'll wind up with is a removal of Line 23.…I've created a Python script to do this operation,…and we're looking at it in Python Idle.…I'm going to completely skip over…the top part of the Python script…and the bottom part of the Python script…and simply focus on the SQL…that we'll pass to the SQLite database.…

What this is doing is setting up a query.…It's a delete query.…From the table called midsummer.…And we're going to delete any lines where play_text,…which is the column that contains the actual text…that's being spoken,…starts with ENTER…or starts with EXIT…or starts with ACT…or any of these following commands.…So again, this SQL query…will delete these lines from the database.…

Let's go ahead and run that.…It comes back almost immediately.…I've jumped back now to the DB Browser for SQLite.…I'm going to refresh,…and you'll notice that things changed.…