[python] Python: Number of rows affected by cursor.execute("SELECT ...)

How can I access the number of rows affected by:

cursor.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) from result where server_state='2' AND name LIKE '"+digest+"_"+charset+"_%'")

In my opinion, the simplest way to get the amount of selected rows is the following:

The cursor object returns a list with the results when using the fetch commands (fetchall(), fetchone(), fetchmany()). To get the selected rows just print the length of this list. But it just makes sense for fetchall(). ;-)

Example:

print len(cursor.fetchall) 

To get the number of selected rows I usually use the following:

cursor.execute(sql)
count = (len(cursor.fetchall))

The number of rows effected is returned from execute:

rows_affected=cursor.execute("SELECT ... ")

of course, as AndiDog already mentioned, you can get the row count by accessing the rowcount property of the cursor at any time to get the count for the last execute:

cursor.execute("SELECT ... ")
rows_affected=cursor.rowcount

From the inline documentation of python MySQLdb:

 def execute(self, query, args=None):

    """Execute a query.

    query -- string, query to execute on server
    args -- optional sequence or mapping, parameters to use with query.

    Note: If args is a sequence, then %s must be used as the
    parameter placeholder in the query. If a mapping is used,
    %(key)s must be used as the placeholder.

    Returns long integer rows affected, if any

    """

From PEP 249, which is usually implemented by Python database APIs:

Cursor Objects should respond to the following methods and attributes:

[…]

.rowcount
This read-only attribute specifies the number of rows that the last .execute*() produced (for DQL statements like 'select') or affected (for DML statements like 'update' or 'insert').

But be careful—it goes on to say:

The attribute is -1 in case no .execute*() has been performed on the cursor or the rowcount of the last operation is cannot be determined by the interface. [7]

Note:
Future versions of the DB API specification could redefine the latter case to have the object return None instead of -1.

So if you've executed your statement, and it works, and you're certain your code will always be run against the same version of the same DBMS, this is a reasonable solution.

when using count(*) the result is {'count(*)': 9}

-- where 9 represents the number of rows in the table, for the instance.

So, in order to fetch the just the number, this worked in my case, using mysql 8.

cursor.fetchone()['count(*)']