there’s a better way
# Larger example
rows = [('2006-03-28', 'BUY', 'IBM', 1000, 45.00),
('2006-04-05', 'BUY', 'MSOFT', 1000, 72.00),
('2006-04-06', 'SELL', 'IBM', 500, 53.00)]
c.executemany('insert into stocks values (?,?,?,?,?)', rows)
connection.commit()