[issue15460] SQLite cursor.description is not DB-API compatible

Gerhard Häring added the comment: SQLite's columns aren't typed, only SQLite values are. So it's entirely possible for the same column to have different types, like the NULL type, the INTEGER type and the TEXT type. It's thus impossible to give meaningful type information in a SQLite3 DB-API

[issue15460] SQLite cursor.description is not DB-API compatible

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[issue15460] SQLite cursor.description is not DB-API compatible

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[issue15460] SQLite cursor.description is not DB-API compatible

New submission from Charlie Clark : It says in the docs: """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.""" According to the DB-API, howev