how to mysqldb dict cursors

[Vaibhav.bhawsar]

Hmm that explains it! Thank you.
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> Vaibhav.bhawsar wrote:
> [top-posting amended: see below]
>
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Paul McNett <p at ulmcnett.com <mailto:
>> p at ulmcnett.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Vaibhav.bhawsar wrote:
>>
>>        I have been trying to get the DictCursor working with mysqldb
>>        module but can't seem to. I have pasted the basic connection
>>        code and the traceback from pydev. The connection does open with
>>        the default cursor class. can't figure this one out. many thanks.
>>
>>
>>    Try one of:
>>
>>    """
>>    import MySQLdb, MySQLdb.cursors
>>    conn = MySQLdb.connect(..., cursorclass=MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor)
>>    """
>>
>>    -or-
>>
>>    """
>>    import MySQLdb, MySQLdb.cursors
>>    conn = MySQLdb.connect(...)
>>    cur = MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor(conn)
>>    """
>>
>>    I'm going off of memory here, though, but I'm at least close.
>>
>>  > Great both methods worked! I don't quite understand this since i
> imported
> > the whole module with "import MySQLdb"
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> The point here is that MySQLdb is a package, not a module. Some packages
> have their top-level __init__.py import the package's sub-modules or
> sub-packages to make them immediately available within the package namespace
> (which is why, for example, you can access os.path.* when you have imported
> os) and others don't.
>
> MySQLdb clearly doesn't need to import the cursors module for its own
> purposes. Perhaps it would be less efficient to always perfrom the import,
> who knows. Well, Andy Dustman does, I suppose, and possibly anyone else who
> reads the code, but I haven't done that myself.
>
> regards
>  Steve
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