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

I'm a bit late to this question. Maybe a close-on-exit-scope is what you want.

from contextlib import closing
from django.db import connection

with closing(connection.cursor()) as cursor:
    cursor.execute(...)
    cursor.execute(...)
    cursor.execute(...)