On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
> Okay, let me put it another way.
>
> Are there any plans to give developers an easy way to retrieve values from
> a cursor.fetchall(), in a DictCursor style?
>
> Default: ((Decimal('0'), Decimal('52'), Decimal('4159'), 9998L),)
>
> What I'm looking for:
> [{
> 'f1' : Decimal('0'),
> 'f2' : Decimal('52'),
> 'f3' : Decimal('4159'),
> 'f4' : 9998L
> }]
>
> Maybe something like cursor.fetchall(field_names=True), or
> cursor.dictfetchall() - which is what the removed function did.
>
> Cal
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Luke Plant <l.plant...@cantab.net> wrote:
>
>> On 16/06/11 14:10, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
>> > Okay, er.
>> >
>> > In reference to the original problem (cursor's not default to
>> > DictCursor), thus no field names are returned, is there a specific
>> > reason for this? If not, I'll probably raise a ticket to have it
>> > considered for change.
>>
>> I'm not sure exactly what you are asking, because this is about default
>> behaviour. The choice of a default is usually made according to what is
>> thought to be the most useful, or according to the way it happens to
>> have been done in the past.
>>
>> I also don't know what exactly you are suggesting. Our backwards
>> compatibility policy means that we aren't going to change the default,
>> unless other people's code is going to work transparently (which
>> wouldn't be the case here), so it doesn't really matter what the
>> original reason was, if there was one. If you are suggesting that we add
>> some functionality to make use of DictCursor more useful, then certainly
>> the suggestion is valid.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Luke
>>
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The field names are available in cursor.description, precisely as in a
normal PEP249 compliant DB-API adapter.
Alex
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