sqlite-utils is so nice, but the ergonomics of the multiline code in kind of tough. It's really hard (maybe impossible) to make the newlines play well with Makefiles.

it would be great to write your code fragment in a separate file and direct it into the sqlite-utils

either like

sqlite-utils convert my.db my_table my_column < custom_code.py

or

sqlite-utils convert my.db my_table my_column --custom-code=custom_code.py

Thanks, as ever, for these great tools!