Oh yes, I switched python with perl, my bad. So my answer was practically nonsense. But nevertheless you have to program it yourself .

Michael's idea about a dynamic array/list is possible, and I think it's alot faster since you only make use of pointers after the mysql library allocated the resultset.

I am developping an sql plugin that returns a dynamic multidimensional array with various data from columns (integers, strings, everything), and also any error message, but it's not yet publicly available. It works quite well though. If you have time/are interested in trying, contact me .