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i think i should elaborate that I do expect to receive only one row ( from the select). Anything more (or less) should be deemed an error.
Well, with the code you have above you *will* get an error: TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable. The reason for that is that fetchone() returns None if there are no rows left to fetch. That error isn't too helpful, though. You will need to do something along these lines:
row = cursor.fetchone()
if row is None:
raise Exception("Hey, only one row was returned!")
tim, val = row
You will want to replace the Exception message with something a bit more meaningful, of course!
thank you @Anthony . Is there a better approach that i should.could use ( vs fetchone or overall ) ?
You're welcome. That approach works and is reasoanble. If you want to check for too many rows as well, you can do fetchall() which will return an array and check the length of the array instead. If you're worried about getting back too many rows with fetchall() you can also use fetchmany(2) which will tell you if there are 0, 1, or 2 rows available.
843804Oct 27 2004 — edited May 27 2009