First, never swallow an exception, or catch all exceptions. Your connection code should be more like:
import sys
import psycopg2
conn = None
try:
conn = psycopg2.connect("dbname = 'routing_template' user = 'postgres' host = 'localhost' password = 'ntubse40'"'****'")
except psycopg2.DatabaseError, ex:
print 'I am unable to connect the database: " + ex
sys.exit(1)
Now, you have a connection. Running SQL is trivial ... as the psycopg2 tutorial would show you.
curs = conn.cursor()
curs.execute("SELECT ...")
for row in curs:
print row
You can be much more sophisticated about how you output row data, etc. The manual has lots of useful examples.