import pymysql.cursors def execute(cursor): # Read a single record sql = "SELECT `id`, `password` FROM `users` WHERE `email`=%s" cursor.execute(sql, ('webmaster@python.org',)) result = cursor.fetchone() print(result) # Connect to the database connection = pymysql.connect(host='localhost', user='user', password='passwd', db='db', charset='utf8mb4', cursorclass=pymysql.cursors.DictCursor) try: with connection.cursor() as cursor: # Create a new record sql = "INSERT INTO `users` (`email`, `password`) VALUES (%s, %s)" cursor.execute(sql, ('webmaster@python.org', 'very-secret')) # connection is not autocommit by default. So you must commit to save # your changes. connection.commit() with connection.cursor() as cursor: execute(cursor) finally: connection.close()