id,page,ref,title,content,breadcrumbs,references
installation:installation-extensions,installation,installation-extensions,A note about extensions,"SQLite supports extensions, such as  SpatiaLite  for geospatial operations. 
             These can be loaded using the  --load-extension  argument, like so: 
             datasette --load-extension=/usr/local/lib/mod_spatialite.dylib 
             Some Python installations do not include support for SQLite extensions. If this is the case you will see the following error when you attempt to load an extension: 
             
                 Your Python installation does not have the ability to load SQLite extensions. 
             
             In some cases you may see the following error message instead: 
             AttributeError: 'sqlite3.Connection' object has no attribute 'enable_load_extension' 
             On macOS the easiest fix for this is to install Datasette using Homebrew: 
             brew install datasette 
             Use  which datasette  to confirm that  datasette  will run that version. The output should look something like this: 
             /usr/local/opt/datasette/bin/datasette 
             If you get a different location here such as  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin/datasette  you can run the following command to cause  datasette  to execute the Homebrew version instead: 
             alias datasette=$(echo $(brew --prefix datasette)/bin/datasette) 
             You can undo this operation using: 
             unalias datasette 
             If you need to run SQLite with extension support for other Python code, you can do so by install Python itself using Homebrew: 
             brew install python 
             Then executing Python using: 
             /usr/local/opt/python@3/libexec/bin/python 
             A more convenient way to work with this version of Python may be to use it to create a virtual environment: 
             /usr/local/opt/python@3/libexec/bin/python -m venv datasette-venv 
             Then activate it like this: 
             source datasette-venv/bin/activate 
             Now running  python  and  pip  will work against a version of Python 3 that includes support for SQLite extensions: 
             pip install datasette
which datasette
datasette --version","[""Installation""]",[]