Cannot open — path is a directory

SQLITE_CANTOPEN_ISDIR (1038) is returned when sqlite3_open() is called with a path that points to a directory rather than a file.

1. 1Passing a directory path instead of a file path to sqlite3_open().
2. 2Path ends with "/" without specifying a filename.

sqlite3_open() or sqlite3.connect() with a directory path.

import sqlite3
try:
    conn = sqlite3.connect('/tmp/')
except sqlite3.OperationalError as e:
    print(e)  # unable to open database file

sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to open database file

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