Uwe Grauer wrote: > Uwe Grauer wrote: >> Kelie wrote: >>> Paul McNett <p <at> ulmcnett.com> writes: >>>> Have you studied the code in dabodemo/tutorial/browseDataSet.py? >>>> >>>> That demo is all set up to accept your database connection parameters >>>> and sql statement on the command line... >>>> >>> Paul, i think i got it to work. i specified the -H argument in my first >>> try, but >>> it should be -d. New question: how is the column order determined in the >>> output >>> grid? seems it is not by alphabetical order, nor is by the order shown in >>> the >>> database. i would like to have the same order as in the db. >>> >> There is no standard column order if you select by "select * from". >> If you want to have a column order, use: >> "select col1, col2, colN from tablename". >> >> Uwe > > But Dabo doesn't like to do it in the sql select order! > It seems to have it's own ordering. > > Just found out by some tests!
I think it's because each record is a Python dict, and the keys of Python dicts are in arbitrary order. We should make an issue about this. -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
