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The usual way to make a request to a database is to write a string with the SQL syntax, then execute this request and get the result as a list with cursor.fetchall() or cursor.fetchone() Python has list comprehensions to select items in an iterable if a certain condition is true ; this is very similar to database requests This recipe wraps a table of a DB-API compliant database in a class that implements the iteration protocol, so that you can use the for ... in ... if ... syntax

Beautiful.

A convenience wrapper for SQLObject.