#!/usr/bin/env python from contextlib import closing import pymysql with closing(pymysql.connect( host="localhost", db="presidents", user="scripts", passwd="scripts" )) as myconn: mycursor = myconn.cursor() for party_name in 'Whig', 'Federalist': print(party_name.upper() + ':') mycursor.execute(''' select lastname, firstname from presidents where party = %s ''', party_name) print(mycursor.fetchall()) print() print(mycursor.description) # for row in mycursor.fetchall(): # print(row) # print('-' * 60)