How to insert variable into sqlite database in python?

Question

My code seems to run fine without any errors but it just creates an empty database file with nothing in it, Cant figure out what i'm doing wrong here.

import sqlite3 as lite
import sys
con = lite.connect('test43.db')

def create_db():
    with con:
        cur = con.cursor()
        cur.execute("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Contacts")
        cur.execute("CREATE TABLE Contacts (First Name TEXT, Last Name TEXT, Phone TEXT, Email TEXT);")
        cur.execute("INSERT INTO Contacts VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?);", (firstname, lastname, phone, email))
        cur.commit()

#Get user input
print ('Enter a new contact')
print ('')
firstname = input('Enter first name: ')
lastname = input('Enter last name: ')
phone = input('Enter phone number: ')
email = input('Enter Email address: ')

createnewdb = input('Enter 1 to create new db: ')
if createnewdb == 1:
    create_db()
else:
    sys.exit(0)

Answer 1

I found this example for inserting variables to be very helpful.

c.execute("SELECT * FROM {tn} WHERE {idf}={my_id}".\
        format(tn=table_name, cn=column_2, idf=id_column, my_id=some_id))

Here's the link to the tutorial. http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_sqlite_in_python_tutorial.html