10.6.2 cursor.MySQLCursorRaw Class

The MySQLCursorRaw class inherits from MySQLCursor.

A MySQLCursorRaw cursor skips the conversion from MySQL data types to Python types when fetching rows. A raw cursor is usually used to get better performance or when you want to do the conversion yourself.

To create a raw cursor, use the raw argument when calling a connection's cursor() method. Alternatively, to make all cursors created from the connection raw by default, use the raw connection argument.

Example:

import mysql.connector

cnx = mysql.connector.connect()

# Only this particular cursor will be raw
cursor = cnx.cursor(raw=True)

# All cursors created from cnx2 will be raw by default
cnx2 = mysql.connector.connect(raw=True)