SV: Function to convert fetchone() result from a list to a dictionary

[Skip Montanaro]

    Carsten> Hmm... Nice. However, is this MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor
    Carsten> available in other DB modules - say, if I someday changed to
    Carsten> (shudder) Postgres or Oracle?

Yes, though in a slightly different manner.  In Psycopg (one of a couple
PostgreSQL wrappers), instead of specifying the type of cursor at database
connection time, you call a different fetch function, e.g., c.dictfetchone()
or c.dictfetchall().

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