Necessity of explicit cursor.close()

Question

From time to time, I\'m executing raw queries using connection.cursor() instead of using ORM (since it is definitely not a silver bullet).

I\'ve noticed that in seve

Answer 1

The explicit calling of cursor.close() might be because of two reasons:

1. __del__ is not guaranteed to be called and has some issues you can read here and here
2. Explicit is better than implicit (Zen of Python)