From cdc98692c180c6c4d559659fa2895ace05408203 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 13:28:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gh-96165: Clarify omitting the FROM clause in SQLite queries.

---
 Doc/library/sqlite3.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index bc69387fca8a938..bc37cec59ac1e5a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -2519,6 +2519,13 @@ Queries now return :class:`!Row` objects:
    >>> row["RADIUS"]  # Column names are case-insensitive.
    6378
 
+.. note::
+
+    The ``FROM`` clause can be ommitted in the ``SELECT`` statement, as in the
+    above example. In such cases, SQLite returns a single row with columns
+    defined by expressions, e.g. literals, with the given aliases
+    ``expr AS alias``.
+
 You can create a custom :attr:`~Cursor.row_factory`
 that returns each row as a :class:`dict`, with column names mapped to values: