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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _execute(self, *args):
 """Execute an SQL query This exists because I think it's tedious to get a cursor and then use a cursor. """

        cursor = self.db.cursor()
        cursor.execute(*args)
        return cursor