Better ways to print out column names when using cx_Oracle

Question

Found an example using cx_Oracle, this example shows all the information of Cursor.description.

import cx_Oracle
from pprint import pprint

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Answer 1

You can use list comprehension as an alternative to get the column names:

col_names = [row[0] for row in cursor.description]

Since cursor.description returns a list of 7-element tuples you can get the 0th element which is a column name.