On Monday, September 30, 2013 4:58:25 PM UTC+2, christens...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi - I have some basic programming experience and new to Python. I have > connected to SQL Server as follows: > > > > import pyodbc > > conn = pyodbc.connect('DSN=DBC') > > cursor = conn.cursor() > > cursor.execute("select measure,fin_year_no,fin_week_no,location_no,value from > actual") > > result=cursor.fetchall() > > > > result looks like this: > > > > > > > > result[0] - ('2013', 2014, 7, 242, 96064.35) > > result[1] - ('2013', 2014, 7, 502, 18444.2) > > .... approximately 2m records > > > > Is there a way to assign the values of result to 5 lists without doing 5 > select statments one for each of the colums and then assigning it to a list > so that: > > > > list1[0] = '2013' > > list1[1] = 2014 > > list1[2] = 7 > > list1[3] = 242 > > list1[4] = 96064.35 > > > > list2[0] = '2013' > > list2[1] = 2014 > > list2[2] = 7 > > list2[3] = 502 > > list2[4] = 18444.2 > > > > and so on ... > > > > Hope someone can help. Regards Jerome
Thanks Joel did not think it could be so simple!!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list