Mapping Column Names to results using DBI

[Juergen A. Erhard]

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>>>>> "Timothy" == Timothy Grant <tjg at avalongroup.net> writes:

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    Timothy> Lance,

    Timothy> Thanks so much for your prompt reply.

    Timothy> I guess the above means that the DBI spec *doesn't* call
    Timothy> for this behaviour. I actually find that quite
    Timothy> surprising, [...]

<aol>Me too</aol>.

That's why I prefer PyGreSQL to the DB-Sig API.  PyGreSQL does it just
the way one would expect a language with dictionaries to behave:

   db.query("select * from table").dictresult()

returns a list of dictionaries keyed on column names.

The DB-Sig API seems, at least to me, to be doing things in a very
traditional way... I guess that's because most of the DB people are
used to this ugliness <0.3 wink>.

Bye, J

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