How to retrieve SQL result column value using column name in Python?

Question

Is there a way to retrieve SQL result column value using column name instead of column index in Python? I\'m using Python 3 with mySQL. The syntax I\'m looking for is pretty

Answer 1

import pymysql

# Open database connection
db = pymysql.connect("localhost","root","","gkdemo1")

# prepare a cursor object using cursor() method
cursor = db.cursor()

# execute SQL query using execute() method.
cursor.execute("SELECT * from user")

# Get the fields name (only once!)
field_name = [field[0] for field in cursor.description]

# Fetch a single row using fetchone() method.
values = cursor.fetchone()

# create the row dictionary to be able to call row['login']
**row = dict(zip(field_name, values))**

# print the dictionary
print(row)

# print specific field
print(**row['login']**)

# print all field
for key in row:
    print(**key," = ",row[key]**)

# close database connection
db.close()

Answer 2

This post is old but may come up via searching.

Now you can use mysql.connector to retrive a dictionary as shown here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/connector-python-api-mysqlcursordict.html

Here is the example on the mysql site:

cnx = mysql.connector.connect(database='world')
cursor = cnx.cursor(dictionary=True)
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM country WHERE Continent = 'Europe'")

print("Countries in Europe:")
for row in cursor:
    print("* {Name}".format(Name=row['Name']))

Answer 3

Of course there is. In Python 2.7.2+...

import MySQLdb as mdb
con =  mdb.connect('localhost', 'user', 'password', 'db');
cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute('SELECT Foo, Bar FROM Table')
for i in range(int(cur.numrows)):
    foo, bar = cur.fetchone()
    print 'foo = %s' % foo
    print 'bar = %s' % bar

Answer 4

selecting values from particular column:

import pymysql
db = pymysql.connect("localhost","root","root","school")
cursor=db.cursor()
sql="""select Total from student"""
l=[]
try:
    #query execution
    cursor.execute(sql)
    #fetch all rows 
    rs = cursor.fetchall()
    #iterate through rows
    for i in rs:
        #converting set to list
        k=list(i)
        #taking the first element from the list and append it to the list
        l.append(k[0])
    db.commit()
except:
    db.rollback()
db.close()
print(l)

Answer 5

You didn't provide many details, but you could try something like this:

# conn is an ODBC connection to the DB
dbCursor = conn.cursor()
sql = ('select field1, field2 from table') 
dbCursor = conn.cursor()
dbCursor.execute(sql)
for row in dbCursor:
    # Now you should be able to access the fields as properties of "row"
    myVar1 = row.field1
    myVar2 = row.field2
conn.close()

Answer 6

import mysql
import mysql.connector

db = mysql.connector.connect(
   host = "localhost",
    user = "root",
    passwd = "P@ssword1",
    database = "appbase"
)

cursor = db.cursor(dictionary=True)

sql = "select Id, Email from appuser limit 0,1"
cursor.execute(sql)
result = cursor.fetchone()

print(result)
# output =>  {'Id': 1, 'Email': 'me@gmail.com'}

print(result["Id"])
# output => 1

print(result["Email"])
# output => me@gmail.com