In <bca2r7dt23l49ovp7m7id1ap3iaccvk...@4ax.com> Steve Sawyer
<ssaw...@stephensawyer.com> writes:
> What I think I want to do is to construct a dictionary using the
> column names as the index value, and a list containing the various
> attributes (data type, lenghth, precision).
If you're using just the column name as the dictionary key, make sure
there are no duplicate column names among all your tables.
> If this is a good approach, I ran into a problem populating the
> dictionary as I couldn't seem to figure out how to make the update()
> method work by passing the name property of the row object; I kept
> getting a "keyword can't be an expression" error.
The general syntax for assigning to a dictionary is:
my_dictionary[key] = value
What are you trying that isn't working?
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