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

[Chris G. <chr...@to...>]

Thanks, yes I think I saw that before. But it'd still be nicer if it were
built in to the driver (as it is in PHP)


On 27 January 2016 at 17:21, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <ama...@gm...>
wrote:

> 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/
>
>
> --
> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
>