import sqlite3 con = sqlite3.connect("mydb") cur = con.cursor() SELECT = "select name_last, age from people order by age, name_last" # 1. Iterate over the rows available from the cursor, unpacking the # resulting sequences to yield their elements (name_last, age): cur.execute(SELECT) for (name_last, age) in cur: print('%s is %d years old.' % (name_last, age)) # 2. Equivalently: cur.execute(SELECT) for row in cur: print('%s is %d years old.' % (row[0], row[1])) con.close()