Escaping list of numbers for Postgres column names

[andydtaylor at gmail.com]

In reply to my own question, postgres column names must begin with a letter or an underscore. So this is what I have done:

>>> for row in cursor_from:
...     if row[8]:
...         stn_list_short.append("_" + row[0])

I can now use stn_list_short to create my columns