The cursor.rowcount gives the count of records in the resultset.

The cursor.rowcount returns how many rows have been so far retrieved through fetch..() methods from the cursor.

Assertion. A database connection object controls the connection to a database.

Reason. A connection object represents a unique session with a database, connected from within a script/program.

Assertion. A database cursor receives all the records retrieved as per the query.

Reason. A resultset refers to the records in the database cursor and allows processing of individual records in it.