On 09/11/14 20:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
It's an attribute called "description". You would need to read the
documentation for curs to know what it does.
What is curs? Where does it come from?
It looks like a cursor from an SQL DB library.
For example, sqlite3 in the standard library provides a
Cursor.description attribute:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Cursor.description
> This read-only attribute provides the column names of the last query.
> To remain compatible with the Python DB API, it returns a 7-tuple for
> each column where the last six items of each tuple are None.
>
> It is set for SELECT statements without any matching rows as well.
You'll have to read the documentation from the library you're using to
determine what it actually does.
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