[DB-SIG] fetchone -> dictionary?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Stephen Ng wrote:
> 
> I'm just getting started with this stuff, so sorry if this is a newbie 
> question/suggestion.
> 
> Why not have a flavor of fetchone() which returns a dictionary instead a
> sequence?  Then we could write:
> 
> row = dfetchone()
> print row['FieldName']
> 
> instead of
> 
> print row[SomeConstantWhichMightChange]
> 
> Perhaps dfetchall could be implemented as an array of dictionaries?

You can easily achieve this using a Python function (or maybe
even a Python class wrapping the DB API cursor interface).
The needed position -> name mapping is available through
cursor.desription.

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