[DB-SIG] Already begun work on something similar...

[Gerhard Häring]

* Jon Franz <coventry@one.net> [2002-07-09 18:00 -0400]:
> The _main_ thing I see missing from the DB API, that makes the wrapper
> I'm working on quite a pain, is a fetch-column-by-name capability,
> [...] I may be looking past something in the documentation that aloows
> this - so enlighten me.

cursor.description

> I've noticed that the old, non DBAPI compliant modules for postgreSQL
> have this functionality,

pyPgSQL has it today. So do PySQLite and MySQLdb. And psycopg and others
maybe, too.

Gerhard
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