Albert Lukaszewski

The point of a cursor is to mark your place and to allow you to issue commands to the computer.

A cursor in MySQL for Python serves as a Python-based proxy for the cursor in a MySQL shell session, where MySQL would create the real cursor for us if we logged into a MySQL database.

By default, MySQL has autocommit switched on. Your database administrator will be able to confirm whether auto-commit is switched on. If it is not, you will need to commit any changes you have made.