Re: [cx-oracle-users] Results as dict

[Chris D. <cdu...@ya...>]

--- Anthony Tuininga <ant...@gm...> wrote:

> 
> Ah, I see. You can do the same thing with cx_Oracle (create a
> subclassed cursor that returns rows as dictionaries) quite easily. Its
> simply not "out of the box" as you say. There is an implicit
> performance penalty involved (dictionaries cost a great deal more to
> build than tuples do relatively speaking) so I've tended to avoid such
> techniques. My personal preference for when performance is not an
> issue is to return objects with attributes defined for each of the
> columns. Both of these techniques are possible to use without any help
> from any module author and should be available globally as a recipe or
> some such. Would there be appreciation for including such things as
> part of documentation or sample files?
> 

I would appreciate these sort things very much.

Thanks,

Chris Dunscombe


 
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