How to efficiently use MySQLDB SScursor?

Question

I have to deal with a large result set (could be hundreds thousands of rows, sometimes more).
They unfortunately need to be retrieved all at once (on start up).

Answer 1

Alternatively, you can use SSCursor outside the connection object (it is pretty important when you already define connection and dont want all the connection use SSCursor as a cursorclass).

import MySQLdb
from MySQLdb.cursors import SSCursor # or you can use SSDictCursor

connection = MySQLdb.connect(
        host=host, port=port, user=username, passwd=password, db=database)
cursor = SSCursor(connection)
cursor.execute(query)
for row in cursor:
    print(row)