import sqlite3 class IterChars: def __init__(self): self.count = ord('a') def __iter__(self): return self def next(self): if self.count > ord('z'): raise StopIteration self.count += 1 return (chr(self.count - 1),) # this is a 1-tuple con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:") cur = con.cursor() cur.execute("create table characters(c)") theIter = IterChars() cur.executemany("insert into characters(c) values (?)", theIter) cur.execute("select c from characters") print cur.fetchall()