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

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Chris Dunscombe wrote:
> 
> --- 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.

ll-orasql (http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/orasql/) implements that 
kind of functionality (i.e. column access via row.column and row["column"]).

Servus,
    Walter