"DarkBlue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following part of an database query works fine : > > self.cur=con1.cursor > self.cur.execute('select a,b,c,d from t1') > for (a,b,c,d) in self.cur: > print a,b,c,d > > > but how to do this: > > self.cur.execute(sql_select_text_put_in_at_runtime) > for (whatever_was_in_the_select_text_part_of_the_query) in self.cur: > print 'returned result set' > > Will it be necessary to parse the sql string and find any possible > return columns or is there a better way so that the query can be used > generically , that is without knowing at coding time > what or how many columns will be returned ?
reading the DB-API documentation might help: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/ /.../ Cursor Objects should respond to the following methods and attributes: .description This read-only attribute is a sequence of 7-item sequences. Each of these sequences contains information describing one result column: (name, type_code, display_size, internal_size, precision, scale, null_ok). The first two items (name and type_code) are mandatory, the other five are optional and must be set to None if meaningfull values are not provided. This attribute will be None for operations that do not return rows or if the cursor has not had an operation invoked via the executeXXX() method yet. The type_code can be interpreted by comparing it to the Type Objects specified in the section below. /.../ </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list