Mapping Column Names to results using DBI

[Timothy Grant]

Aahz Maruch wrote:

> The point is that if you are choosing the order of column names in your
> SELECT, then it doesn't matter if the underlying table changes
> structure.  It is now safe to index by ordinal position.  Moreover, if
> you want to get really fancy, you could make up a list of field names,
> string.join() it for the SELECT, then map the list to a dict to get the
> ordinal position for each field name.

Sorry for being thick as a brick on that one. Thanks for the
clarification much appreciated!

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