ref: 5513dae7d9eee46f7e1843c8eeeaf9066d0ec632
dir: /sys/src/cmd/python/Doc/lib/sqlite3/shortcut_methods.py/
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 # Using a dummy WHERE clause to not let SQLite take the shortcut table deletes. print "I just deleted", con.execute("delete from person where 1=1").rowcount, "rows"