Alan> The other problem is accessing data in each row by column name. In
Alan> Ruby I can say:
Alan> Print row["ColName"]
Alan> In Python; however, I must access to row contents by integer
Alan> index, like PRINT ROW[0], which reduces my program's readability.
Alan> Can I access to row's contents by column name?
There are a couple things you can try. First, see if the adaptor for your
database has a way to specify that query results should be returned as a
list of dicts instead of a list of tuples. MySQLdb allows you to select the
style of cursor class to instantiate when you create the connection. I
think Psycopg provides a dictcursor() method on the connection (though I may
be misremembering - it's been awhile). Other adaptors may provide similar
functionality.
Failing that, you can whip something up yourself using the description
attribute to which Fredrik referred:
for row in curs.fetchall():
row = dict(zip([d[0] for d in curs.description], row))
...
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