Here are my averagely general class methods for creating a dictionary from the result of database queries:
def make_schema_dict(self): schema = [i[2] for i in self.cursor.tables() if i[2].startswith('tbl_') or i[2].startswith('vw_')] self.schema = {table: {'scheme': [row.column_name for row in self.cursor.columns(table)]} for table in schema} def last_table_query_as_dict(self, table): return {'data': [{col: row.__getattribute__(col) for col in self.schema[table]['scheme'] if col != 'RowNum'} for row in self.cursor.fetchall()]} Unfortunately as you can see, there are many complications. For example, when multiple tables are queried; some hackish lambdas are required to generate the resulting dictionary. Can you think of some more general methods? (and yes I know this is against the PEP; and that this is also on SO) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list