[DB-SIG] There is a better way

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Richard Taylor wrote:
>>A .rowcount of 0 always indicates that the result set is
>>empty. Unfortunately, some database drivers and interfaces
>>are broken in this respect (including some ODBC drivers
>>out there), so applications should be aware of this.
> 
> 
> So that means that the original code should work if the driver is not broken?
> 
> i.e.
> 
>  if cr.description == None or cr.rowcount == 0 :
>        return []

Don't know why you test .description here. cr.rowcount should suffice.

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