looking for a more pythonic way to access the database

Question

I have a bunch of python methods that follow this pattern:

def delete_session(guid):
    conn = get_conn()
    cur = conn.cursor()

    cur.execute(\"delete          


        

Answer 1

According to the docs, if you were using SQLite3, you wouldn't even need a Cursor which, as the docs say, is "often superfluous".

Instead you can use the shortcut methods execute executemany and executescript directly on the connection object:

import sqlite3

persons = [
    ("Hugo", "Boss"),
    ("Calvin", "Klein")
    ]

con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")

# Create the table
con.execute("create table person(firstname, lastname)")

# Fill the table
con.executemany("insert into person(firstname, lastname) values (?, ?)", persons)

# Print the table contents
for row in con.execute("select firstname, lastname from person"):
    print row

print "I just deleted", con.execute("delete from person").rowcount, "rows"