Persistent db conn and fetchall() data with dict

[Jarosław Zabiełło]

I have two questions.

First. Is there a possibillity for *persistent* connection to MySQL
using MySQLdb module? Does it mean, I do not need to close db
connection? What about opened cursor? Should I close it, or I can
leave it as it is? 

Second, is it possible to get the result from the database with
dictionary (not pure tuple)? Eg.

rows = cursor.fetchall()
for row in rows:
	print row['MyField1'], row['MyField2']

For now, I must remember the order of all fields of my query. It is
unconvienent to use:
	print row[0], row[1]

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JZ