nning our application. In our simple examples 
the database will just be a local file in the same directory
as the Python code we are running.<br />
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A <b>cursor</b> is like a file handle that we can use to perform
operations on the data stored in the database. Calling 
<tt>cursor()</tt> is very similar conceptually to calling
<tt>open()</tt> when dealing with text files.<br />
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Once we ha