python: MYSQLdb. how to get columns name without executing select * in a big table?

Question

I want to get the column names of a table, but there a over million data in it. So I cannot use:

cursor.execute(\"SELECT * FROM table_name\")
print cursor.de         


        

Answer 1

cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM table_name LIMIT 0")
cursor.column_names

Use the following to find other information

[v for v in dir(cursor) if v.find("_")]