[DB-SIG] Python database API 2.0/returning Column names with data

[M.-A. Lemburg]

> Gary Maynard wrote:
> 
> HI,
>   We are trying to implement a method whereby we can return data from
> the database in key value dictionary pairs.
> 
> so for example we have a table something like this:
> 
> Table: Address
> Name varchar(20),
> Street varchar(20),
> Town varchar(20),
> ccode char(2)
> 
> and we want to return the data into a dictionary so that we also have
> access to the column title.  For example, let's say we query the
> database with something like this:
> 
> result = cursor.fetchall("select * from Address")
> 
> Then we'd like to put the data from result into another data object,
> call it sorted_result.  We'd like to include the column names in this
> object such that we could obtain any piece of data by giving it the
> row number and column name.  So, if we wanted to obtain the Street of
> the 6th row, we would say something like:
> 
> sorted_result [6]['Street']
> 
> And if we wanted to iterate over all the streets we can do:
> 
> for x in result:
>    do stuff with result[x]['Street']
> 
> There seems to be fairly standard ways of doing this in DBI
> (selectrow_hashref) and ODBC (Datahash), but I can't seem to make it
> work with this API.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Please scan the DB-SIG archives for discussions and links on this topic:
there are a few tools out there to wrap the results of .fecthxxx() 
into dictionaries. Easiest to use is probably dtuple.py by Greg Stein.

We should really add a note about this to the DB API -- this 
question is becoming a FAQ.

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