Python & MySQL - Sorting Data Example

Python uses c.execute(q) function to select a record(s) in sorted order using sort by Statement from a table where c is cursor and q is the select query to be executed.

Syntax

# execute SQL query using execute() method.
cursor.execute(sql)

result = cursor.fetchall()

for record in result:
   print(record)

Example

Try the following example to select sorted records from a table using sort by Statement −

Copy and paste the following example as mysql_example.ty −

#!/usr/bin/python

import MySQLdb

# Open database connection
db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","root@123", "TUTORIALS")

# prepare a cursor object using cursor() method
cursor = db.cursor()

sql = "Select * from tutorials_tbl order by tutorial_title asc"

# execute SQL query using execute() method.
cursor.execute(sql)

# fetch all records from cursor
result = cursor.fetchall()

# iterate result and print records
for record in result:
   print(record)

# disconnect from server
db.close()

Output

Execute the mysql_example.py script using python and verify the output.

(1, 'HTML 5', 'Robert', datetime.date(2010, 2, 10))
(2, 'Java', 'Julie', datetime.date(2020, 12, 10))
(3, 'JQuery', 'Julie', datetime.date(2020, 5, 10))