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Question from a beginner. Is it possible to access built-in databases with Pythonista like Calendar etc and is it possible to create or set up new databases ?

No, the sandboxing security measures of iOS prevent you from accessing the calendar database and things like that directly (that's why you see a dialog before any app accesses the calendar). I'm considering to add a module for accessing calendar/contacts data, but without that, there's no way to do it.

As for setting up new databases, there is the sqlite3 module which allows you to create SQLite databases. This can be useful for learning SQL and for storing structured data for your scripts, but if I understand your question correctly, it won't help you with what you're trying to do.

Access to read/write calendar and other databases that are now exposed via various APIs would certainly be very useful so I would be in favour of modules to do so!