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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:59:05 -0400
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:48:31 -0500, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:


> Yeah, it has the same structure internally, but I'm somewhat 
> surprised that the DB connection object doesn't have an 
> __iter__() that does something like this automatically under the 
> covers.
>
	I believe being able to use the connection object directly for
queries is considered a short-cut feature... If you use the longer form

con = db.connect()
cur = con.cursor()

	the cursor object, in all that I've worked with, does function for
iteration

	for rec in cur:
		#do stuff
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