Re: [cx-oracle-users] New features?

[Amaury F. d'A. <ama...@gm...>]

Hi Chris,

2016-01-27 18:02 GMT+01:00 Chris Gould <chr...@to...>:

> Hi Anthony -
> I'm not an expert Python programmer, but I do find Python and the
> cx_Oracle driver extremely useful in my job as a PL/SQL programmer.
>
> One thing which would be extremely useful is if the columns returned by a
> query could be referenced by their column names rather than their offset
> number.  Is that something that could be done easily?
>
> I also use PHP a bit and I know there it's possible to choose either to
> reference the returned columns by name or offset, and it makes the code
> much easier to follow when you're using column names.
>

Someone asked this several years ago already, here is a solution with a
custom cursor.rowfactory:
http://sourceforge.net/p/cx-oracle/mailman/message/27145597/


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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc