import sqlite3 con = sqlite3.connect('smoke.db') c = con.cursor() deleted = c.execute('DELETE FROM message WHERE type_raw = -2').rowcount con.commit() print(f'Deleted {deleted} divider messages') print(f"Remaining wechat: {c.execute(chr(34)+'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM message WHERE channel=' + chr(39) + 'wechat' + chr(39) + chr(34)).fetchone()[0]}")