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

Mon Nov 12 05:45:31 EST 2012

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