Use psycopg2 to do loop in postgresql

Question

I use postgresql 8.4 to route a river network, and I want to use psycopg2 to loop through all data points in my river network.

#set up python and postgresql connection
import psycopg2

query = """
    select *
    from driving_distance ($$
        select
            gid as id,
            start_id::int4 as source,
            end_id::int4 as target,
            shape_leng::double precision as cost
        from network
        $$, %s, %s, %s, %s
    )
;"""


conn = psycopg2.connect("dbname = 'routing_template' user = 'postgres' host = 'localhost' password = '****'")
cur = conn.cursor()
while True:
    i = 1
    if i <= 2:
        cur.execute(query, (i, 1000000, False, False))
        i = i + 1
    else:
        break
rs = cur.fetchall()
conn.close()
print rs

The code above costs a lot of time to run even though I have set the maximum iterator i equals to 2, and the output is an error message contains garbage,

I am thinking that if postgresql can accept only one result at one time, so I tried to put this line in my loop,

rs(i) = cur.fetchall()

and the error message said that this line has bugs,

I know that I can't write code like rs(i), but I don't know the replacement to validate my assumption.

So should I save one result to a file first then use the next iterator to run the loop, and again and again?

I am working with postgresql 8.4, python 2.7.6 under Windows 8.1 x64.

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Update#1

I can do loop using Clodoaldo Neto's code(thanks), and the result is like this,

[(1, 2, 0.0), (2, 2, 4729.33082850235), (3, 19, 4874.27571718902), (4, 3, 7397.215962901), (5, 4, 
6640.31749097187), (6, 7, 10285.3869655786), (7, 7, 14376.1087618696), (8, 5, 15053.164236979), (9, 10, 16243.5973710466), (10, 8, 19307.3024368889), (11, 9, 21654.8669532788), (12, 11, 23522.6224229233), (13, 18, 29706.6964721152), (14, 21, 24034.6792693279), (15, 18, 25408.306370489), (16, 20, 34204.1769580924), (17, 11, 26465.8348728118), (18, 20, 38596.7313209197), (19, 13, 35184.9925532175), (20, 16, 36530.059646027), (21, 15, 35789.4069722436), (22, 15, 38168.1750567026)]
[(1, 2, 4729.33082850235), (2, 2, 0.0), (3, 19, 144.944888686669), (4, 3, 2667.88513439865), (5, 4, 1910.98666246952), (6, 7, 5556.05613707624), (7, 7, 9646.77793336723), (8, 5, 10323.8334084767), (9, 10, 11514.2665425442), (10, 8, 14577.9716083866), (11, 9, 16925.5361247765), (12, 11, 18793.2915944209), (13, 18, 24977.3656436129), (14, 21, 19305.3484408255), (15, 18, 20678.9755419867), (16, 20, 29474.8461295901), (17, 11, 21736.5040443094), (18, 20, 33867.4004924174), (19, 13, 30455.6617247151), (20, 16, 31800.7288175247), (21, 15, 31060.0761437413), (22, 15, 33438.8442282003)]

but if I want to get this look of output,

(1, 2, 7397.215962901)
(2, 2, 2667.88513439865)
(3, 19, 2522.94024571198)
(4, 3, 0.0)
(5, 4, 4288.98201949483)
(6, 7, 7934.05149410155)
(7, 7, 12024.7732903925)
(8, 5, 12701.828765502)
(9, 10, 13892.2618995696)
(10, 8, 16955.9669654119)
(11, 9, 19303.5314818018)
(12, 11, 21171.2869514462)
(13, 18, 27355.3610006382)
(14, 21, 21683.3437978508)
(15, 18, 23056.970899012)
(16, 20, 31852.8414866154)
(17, 11, 24114.4994013347)
(18, 20, 36245.3958494427)
(19, 13, 32833.6570817404)
(20, 16, 34178.72417455)
(21, 15, 33438.0715007666)
(22, 15, 35816.8395852256)

What should I make a little change in the code？

Answer 1

rs = []
while True:
    i = 1
    if i <= 2:
        cur.execute(query, (i, 1000000, False, False))
        rs.extend(cur.fetchall())
        i = i + 1
    else:
        break
conn.close()
print rs

If it is just a counter that breaks that loop then

rs = []
i = 1
while i <= 2:
    cur.execute(query, (i, 1000000, False, False))
    rs.extend(cur.fetchall())
    i = i + 1
conn.close()
print rs