On 22/03/2013 16:01, Roy Smith wrote: > What are my options for MySQL schema discovery? I want to be able to > find all the tables in a database, and discover the names and types of > each column (i.e. the standard schema discovery stuff). > > PEP 249 doesn't seem to have any discovery methods. Nor does MySQLdb > appear to have any non-standard extentions for this. I could probably > do this with SQLAlchemy, but I'm trying to avoid that because it's so > heavyweight. >
MySQL appears to support the standard(ish) INFORMATION_SCHEMA schema: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/information-schema.html TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
