Using shortcut methods
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Using the nonstandard :meth:`execute`, :meth:`executemany` and
-:meth:`executescript` methods of the :class:`Connection` object, your code can
+Using the :meth:`~Connection.execute`,
+:meth:`~Connection.executemany`, and :meth:`~Connection.executescript`
+methods of the :class:`Connection` class, your code can
be written more concisely because you don't have to create the (often
superfluous) :class:`Cursor` objects explicitly. Instead, the :class:`Cursor`
objects are created implicitly and these shortcut methods return the cursor