wrt basic behaviour, this library seems to save all of two lines which can easily be bundled in a convenience function:

    def query(connection, q):
        cursor = connection.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.DictCursor)
        cursor.execute(q)
        return iter(cursor.fetchone, None)

    # db = records.Database('postgres://...')
    db = psycopg2.connect('postgres://...')
    # rows = db.query('select * from active_users')
    rows = query(db, 'select * from active_users')
    # rows.next()
    next(rows)
    # for row in rows:
    #    spam_user(name=row['name'], email=row['user_email'])
    for row in rows:
        spam_user(name=row['name'], email=row['user_email'])
    # rows.all()
    list(rows)