Re: [DB-SIG] Cursor.description when Cursor.rowcount == 0

[Art Protin]

Dear folks,     Carsten Haese wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 19:03 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: It is common practice to do cursor.execute('select * from mytable where 1=0') print cursor.description I'm glad I'm not the only one doing this :) cursor.description always refers to a result set. If a statement does not produce a result set, then .description should be None. I think the DB-API spec (or a future version thereof) should replace "operations that do not return rows" with "operations that do not produce a result set" to make this point clear. -Carsten The DBMS that I am writing the interface for has other (more efficient) ways of producing this meta data.  Don't the other DBMSs ?  Should the spec include a method (or more) to report on tables in the DB and on columns in a table?  Is there a common extension that should be codified?     Thank you all,     Arthur Protin

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