How to get the value of aggregate functions using MySQL Connector/Python? (2 replies)

Sometimes we need get the value of the MySQL aggregate functions like COUNT, MAX, etc.
For example, if I need to know how many records has a table, I could write the following code:

mysql_connect = mysql.connector.connect(user=’ernest’, database=’magazine’)
sql = ‘SELECT COUNT(*) FROM author’
cursor = mysql_connect.cursor()
cursor.execute(sql)
data = cursor.fetchall()
print(data)

This will print:

[(20,)]

Two questions:

1. How to get the real 20 records value?

2. If this the correct code to get the values of the MySQL aggregate functions?

Thank you in advanced!

Ernest