code: def execute(self, statement):
          
  
          # Make the sql statement easier to read in case some of the queries we
          # run end up in the output
          sql = statement.replace('\n', '')
          sql = ' '.join(sql.split())
          self.cursor.execute(sql)
  
          return self.cursor.fetchall()
docs: Execute the given sql statement.
  
          :param statement: sql statement to run
          :returns: list