how to get a single result from a SQLite query in python?

I think you're looking for Cursor.fetchone() :

cursor.fetchone()[0]

Or you could write a wrapper function that, given SQL, returns a scalar result:

def get_scalar_result(conn, sql):
    cursor=conn.cursor()
    cursor.execute(sql)

    return cursor.fetchone()[0]

I apologize for the possibly less than syntactically correct Python above, but I hope you get the idea.

If you're not using pysqlite which has the built in cursor.fetchone

cursor.execute("select value from table order by value desc limit 1")

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