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+import sqlite3
+
+FIELD_MAX_WIDTH = 20
+TABLE_NAME = 'people'
+SELECT = 'select * from %s order by age, name_last' % TABLE_NAME
+
+con = sqlite3.connect("mydb")
+
+cur = con.cursor()
+cur.execute(SELECT)
+
+# Print a header.
+for fieldDesc in cur.description:
+    print fieldDesc[0].ljust(FIELD_MAX_WIDTH) ,
+print # Finish the header with a newline.
+print '-' * 78
+
+# For each row, print the value of each field left-justified within
+# the maximum possible width of that field.
+fieldIndices = range(len(cur.description))
+for row in cur:
+    for fieldIndex in fieldIndices:
+        fieldValue = str(row[fieldIndex])
+        print fieldValue.ljust(FIELD_MAX_WIDTH) ,
+
+    print # Finish the row with a newline.