Passing a query to MySQL

We have just seen how to form a query for a generic MySQL session. While that was not particularly difficult, using MySQL for Python is even easier. For this next section, we will be working against a database fish with a table menu that has the following contents:

+----+----------------+-------+
| id | name           | price |
+----+----------------+-------+
|  1 | tuna           |  7.50 | 
|  2 | bass           |  6.75 | 
|  3 | salmon         |  9.50 | 
|  4 | catfish        |  5.00 | 
|  5 | trout          |  6.00 | 
|  6 | haddock        |  6.50 | 
|  7 | yellowfin tuna | 12.00 | 
+----+----------------+-------+

As discussed in Chapter 1, Python's interface with MySQL requires a cursor. It is through the cursor object that we pass commands to MySQL. So, we import MySQL for Python, log into our database fish and create the cursor as follows:

import MySQLdb
mydb = MySQLdb.connect(host = 'localhost', 
                       user = 'skipper', 
                  ...