# dict.py - using DictCUrsor/DictRow # # Copyright (C) 2005 Federico Di Gregorio # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later # version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTIBILITY # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License # for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting) import sys import psycopg2 import psycopg2.extras if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print "Opening connection using dsn:", DSN conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) print "Encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding curs = conn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.DictCursor) curs.execute("SELECT 1 AS foo, 'cip' AS bar, date(now()) as zot") print "Cursor's row factory is", curs.row_factory data = curs.fetchone() print "The type of the data row is", type(data) print "Some data accessed both as tuple and dict:" print " ", data['foo'], data['bar'], data['zot'] print " ", data[0], data[1], data[2] # execute another query and demostrate we can still access the row curs.execute("SELECT 2 AS foo") print "The type of the data row is", type(data) print "Some more data accessed both as tuple and dict:" print " ", data['foo'], data['bar'], data['zot'] print " ", data[0], data[1], data[2] curs = conn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.RealDictCursor) curs.execute("SELECT 1 AS foo, 'cip' AS bar, date(now()) as zot") print "Cursor's row factory is", curs.row_factory data = curs.fetchone() print "The type of the data row is", type(data) print "Some data accessed both as tuple and dict:" print " ", data['foo'], data['bar'], data['zot'] print " ", "No access using indices: this is a specialized cursor." # execute another query and demostrate we can still access the row curs.execute("SELECT 2 AS foo") print "The type of the data row is", type(data) print "Some more data accessed both as tuple and dict:" print " ", data['foo'], data['bar'], data['zot'] print " ", "No access using indices: this is a specialized cursor."