import MySQLdb try: connection = MySQLdb.connect(user="user",passwd="password",host="xxx",db="test") except: print "Could not connect to MySQL server." exit( 0 ) try: cursor = connection.cursor() cursor.execute( "SELECT note_id,note_detail FROM note where note_id = 1" ) print "Rows selected:", cursor.rowcount for row in cursor.fetchall(): print "note : ", row[0], row[1] cursor.close()