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

The MySQLdb module has a DictCursor:

Use it like this (taken from Writing MySQL Scripts with Python DB-API):

cursor = conn.cursor(MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor)
cursor.execute("SELECT name, category FROM animal")
result_set = cursor.fetchall()
for row in result_set:
    print "%s, %s" % (row["name"], row["category"])

edit: According to user1305650 this works for pymysql as well.

Answer 2

import mysql.connector as mysql
...
cursor = mysql.cnx.cursor()
cursor.execute('select max(id) max_id from ids')
(id) = [ id for id in cursor ]

Answer 3

you must look for something called " dictionary in cursor "

i'm using mysql connector and i have to add this parameter to my cursor , so i can use my columns names instead of index's

db = mysql.connector.connect(
    host=db_info['mysql_host'],
    user=db_info['mysql_user'],
    passwd=db_info['mysql_password'],
    database=db_info['mysql_db'])

cur = db.cursor()

cur = db.cursor( buffered=True , dictionary=True)

Answer 4

python 2.7

import pymysql

conn = pymysql.connect(host='localhost', port=3306, user='root', passwd='password', db='sakila')

cur = conn.cursor()

n = cur.execute('select * from actor')
c = cur.fetchall()

for i in c:
    print i[1]