Is there any way to retrieve column names from a cursor using the ODBC
module? Or must I, in advance, create a dictionary of column position
and column names for a particular table before I can access column
values by column names? I'd prefer sticking with the ODBC module for
now because it comes standard in Python.
I'm using Python 2.4 at the moment.
Thanks.
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On Jun 21, 11:58 pm, dana...@yahoo.c om wrote:
Is there any way to retrieve column names from a cursor using the ODBC
module? Or must I, in advance, create a dictionary of column position
and column names for a particular table before I can access column
values by column names? I'd prefer sticking with the ODBC module for
now because it comes standard in Python.
I'm using Python 2.4 at the moment.
Thanks.
On Jun 21, 11:58 pm, dana...@yahoo.c om wrote:
Is there any way to retrieve column names from a cursor using the ODBC
module? Or must I, in advance, create a dictionary of column position
and column names for a particular table before I can access column
values by column names? I'd prefer sticking with the ODBC module for
now because it comes standard in Python.
I'm using Python 2.4 at the moment.
Do you mean the odbc module? If so, it doesn't come standard in
Python; it's part of the win32 package.
I haven't used it for years -- my preference on Windows these days
would be mxODBC if the client would pay the licence fee, otherwise
pyodbc. Sorry I'm not answering your question ... perhaps you should
be asking a different question :)
Cheers,
John
On Jun 22, 12:19 am, John Machin <sjmac...@lexic on.netwrote:
On Jun 21, 11:58 pm, dana...@yahoo.c om wrote:
Is there any way to retrieve column names from a cursor using the ODBC
module? Or must I, in advance, create a dictionary of column position
and column names for a particular table before I can access column
values by column names? I'd prefer sticking with the ODBC module for
now because it comes standard in Python.
I'm using Python 2.4 at the moment.
Do you mean the odbc module? If so, it doesn't come standard in
Python; it's part of the win32 package.
I haven't used it for years -- my preference on Windows these days
would be mxODBC if the client would pay the licence fee, otherwise
pyodbc. Sorry I'm not answering your question ... perhaps you should
be asking a different question :)
Cheers,
John
But to help you answer your question: if the module that you are using
supports the 2.0 version of the database API (see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/),
then it will support the cursor.descript ion attribute, which gives you
not only the name but the type and 5 other bits of info about each
column. If it doesn't, I'd suggest moving on.
HTH,
John
On Jun 21, 3:58*pm, dana...@yahoo.c om wrote:
Is there any way to retrieve column names from a cursor using the ODBC
module? Or must I, in advance, create a dictionary of column position
and column names for a particular table before I can access column
values by column names? I'd prefer sticking with the ODBC module for
now because it comes standard in Python.
I'm using Python 2.4 at the moment.
Thanks.
You should be able to do
column_names = [d[0] for d in cursor.descript ion]
Thanks Chris and John. Chris, this worked perfectly with the ODBC
module that ships with Python Win32:
column_names = [d[0] for d in cursor.descript ion]
John, I've never heard of pyodbc but I'll have to look into it.
Thanks again.
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