On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:16 PM, jorma kala<jjk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a way of retrieving the value of columns in the rows returned by
> fetchall, by column name instead of index on the row?
> Code Snippet:
>
> query="select * from employees"
> db=MySQLdb.connect(host=host,user=user,passwd=passwd,db=database)
> cursor = db.cursor ()
> cursor.execute (query)
> rows = cursor.fetchall ()
>
> for row in rows:
> print row[0]
>
>
> Instead of specifying the index of the row to retrieve the first column
> (row[0]), I'd like to retrieve the value of the first column by column name.
> Something like row.get('employee_id')
> Is something of the sort possible with Mysqdb?
> Thanks very much.
>
Use a DictCursor:
import MySQLdb.cursors
.
.
.
cursor = db.cursor (MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor)
cursor.execute (query)
rows = cursor.fetchall ()
for row in rows:
print row['employee_id']
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