ref: cd46741b5c0b0674ce3db372bcc525daafcbfc46
dir: /sys/src/cmd/python/Doc/lib/sqlite3/simple_tableprinter.py/
import sqlite3
FIELD_MAX_WIDTH = 20
TABLE_NAME = 'people'
SELECT = 'select * from %s order by age, name_last' % TABLE_NAME
con = sqlite3.connect("mydb")
cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute(SELECT)
# Print a header.
for fieldDesc in cur.description:
    print fieldDesc[0].ljust(FIELD_MAX_WIDTH) ,
print # Finish the header with a newline.
print '-' * 78
# For each row, print the value of each field left-justified within
# the maximum possible width of that field.
fieldIndices = range(len(cur.description))
for row in cur:
    for fieldIndex in fieldIndices:
        fieldValue = str(row[fieldIndex])
        print fieldValue.ljust(FIELD_MAX_WIDTH) ,
    print # Finish the row with a newline.