Is __enter__ and __exit__ behaviour for connection objects specified in the Python database API?

Question

Background

I recently discovered the Python with keyword and started seeing its potential usefulness for more prettily handling some scenarios where I

Answer 1

See the __enter__ function in this link. https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python/blob/master/MySQLdb/connections.py

__enter__ function of connection object returns self.cursor().

That is why you are getting cursor object instead of Connection object.