[newbie] Right way to access item in array?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Gilles Ganault wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I'd like to know what the right way is to access an item in a row as
> returned by a database:
> 
> =====
> import apsw
> 
> connection=apsw.Connection("test.sqlite")
> cursor=connection.cursor()
> 
> rows=cursor.execute("SELECT isbn,price FROM books WHERE price IS
> NULL")
> for row in rows:
> 
> #Is this right?
> for isbn in row:

No. This will iterate though all columns, not just the isbn.

You can use tuple-unpacking in such cases:

for row in rows:
   isbn, price = row
   ...


Diez