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>>> type(con)
<class 'MySQLdb.connections.Connection'>
>>> c=con.cursor()
>>> c
<MySQLdb.cursors.Cursor object at 0xa1a2c6c>
>>> c.execute('show tables',None)
19L
(('auth_group',), ('auth_group_permissions',),....
>>> c.execute('select username from auth_user where username like %s',('hdknr'))
1L
>>> c.fetchall()
(('hdknr',),)
>>> c.execute('select username from auth_user where username like %s',('hoge'))
0L