What is description attribute in python?

[Deepfriedice]

On 09/11/14 20:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> It's an attribute called "description". You would need to read the
> documentation for curs to know what it does.
>
> What is curs? Where does it come from?

It looks like a cursor from an SQL DB library.
For example, sqlite3 in the standard library provides a 
Cursor.description attribute:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Cursor.description
 > This read-only attribute provides the column names of the last query. 
 > To remain compatible with the Python DB API, it returns a 7-tuple for 
 > each column where the last six items of each tuple are None.
 >
 > It is set for SELECT statements without any matching rows as well.

You'll have to read the documentation from the library you're using to 
determine what it actually does.