Is there a way to creat a func that returns a cursor that can be used?

[Khalid Al-Ghamdi]

Is there a way to create a func that returns a cursor that can be used to execute sql statements? 

I tried this (after importing sqlite3), but it gave me the error below:

>>> def connect():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')#use sch3.db or sch4.db  .... etc.
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute("create table schedule (teams integer, sn integer, badge integer ,name text, grp integer,\
    major text, track text, stage text,  tc text, subject text, course text, ws text, date text, \
    time text, proctor text, code text, no integer,fl_time text, flag2 text, flag3 text, flag4 text, clash1 integer, clash2 integer)")
    return cur
>>> connect()
<sqlite3.Cursor object at 0x0119EA20>
>>> cur.execute("select * from schedule")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#26>", line 1, in <module>
    cur.execute("select * from schedule")
NameError: name 'cur' is not defined