title: Have sqlalchemy count how many rows are in the table and print it out
body: <p>I currently have a remote mysql table that connects via <code>create_engine</code>. after I got the database established with <code>conn = engine.connect()</code>, i used <code>cuteCatNum = conn.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cat_table;")</code> to store what should be the output of the command into the variable <code>cuteCatNum</code>. But the problem is, that I cannnot show what is the count when I tried <code>print cuteCatNum</code>. Also, trying <code>print str(cuteCatNum)</code> wouldnt work as it would just print the memory location instead of the output. So my question is, how would I get the number of rows from the remote mysql as simple as possible and have it print it out?</p>