Suppress cursor.execute() message in python MySQLdb

Question

How to suppress the cursor.execute() message in MySQLdb.

>>> from warnings import filterwarnings
>>> import MySQLdb
>>> filterwarnings('ignore', category = MySQLdb.Warning)
>>> db = MySQLdb.connect('127.0.0.1', 'root', '','')
>>> cursor = db.cursor()
>>> cursor.execute("select version()")
1L

I need to suppress this '1L' message

Answer 1

What you see there is not a warning message, but the return value of cursor.execute() . It's the number of rows affected, 1.

The API happens to return a Python long integer , but it's otherwise the same as a regular int value:

>>> 1L
1L
>>> 1
1
>>> 1 == 1L
True

If you do not want the Python console to echo return values back to you, assign them to a variable:

>>> somevariable = 1L