one strategy for dealing with sql queries.... it's imperfect but that's what you wanted i think.

gistfile1.txt

class PostGres(object):
    
    connection = None
    
    def __init__(self, connection, debug_on=True):
        self.connection = connection
        self.autocommit = True
        self.debug_on = debug_on
        
    def get_table_count(self, table):
        sql = "select count(*) from {0}".format(table)
        self.debug(sql)
        cur = self.connection.cursor() 
        cur.execute(sql)
        reserved = cur.fetchone()
        cur.close()
        # return data
        return reserved[0]

    def debug(self, s):
        if self.debug_on:
            print "{}".format(s)