import sqlite3

con = sqlite3.connect("mydb")

cur = con.cursor()

SELECT = "select name_last, age from people order by age, name_last"

# 1. Iterate over the rows available from the cursor, unpacking the

# resulting sequences to yield their elements (name_last, age):

cur.execute(SELECT)

for (name_last, age) in cur:

    print '%s is %d years old.' % (name_last, age)

# 2. Equivalently:

cur.execute(SELECT)

for row in cur:

    print '%s is %d years old.' % (row[0], row[1])