Python DB API - commit() v. execute("commit transaction")?

[Frank Millman]

"Frank Millman"  wrote in message news:ogr3ff$sg1$1 at blaine.gmane.org...

> By default, psycopg2 uses 'autocommit', which means that even a SELECT is
preceded by a 'BEGIN' statement internally. I never changed the default, so
all of the following assumes that autocommit is on.

Oops - by default it does *not* use autocommit, so the following assumes 
that it is off.

Frank