Question

I have accessed a database and have the result in a cursor object. when I try to save it to a text file, python says

TypeError: argument 1 must be string or read-only character buffer, not sqlite3.Cursor

can someone tell me what I should do here?

curobject.execute('select * from device_auth')  
for row in curobject:  
        print row  
myfile =open('out.txt', 'w')  
myfile.write(curobject)

Answer 1

You can’t just write objects to a file, you have to either serialize them or write your own string representation of the object. For records of a database the csv module could make sense.

Which approach is better depends on what you want to do with the file later.