Hmm that explains it! Thank you. v On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vaibhav.bhawsar wrote: > [top-posting amended: see below] > >> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> Vaibhav.bhawsar wrote: >> >> I have been trying to get the DictCursor working with mysqldb >> module but can't seem to. I have pasted the basic connection >> code and the traceback from pydev. The connection does open with >> the default cursor class. can't figure this one out. many thanks. >> >> >> Try one of: >> >> """ >> import MySQLdb, MySQLdb.cursors >> conn = MySQLdb.connect(..., cursorclass=MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor) >> """ >> >> -or- >> >> """ >> import MySQLdb, MySQLdb.cursors >> conn = MySQLdb.connect(...) >> cur = MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor(conn) >> """ >> >> I'm going off of memory here, though, but I'm at least close. >> >> > Great both methods worked! I don't quite understand this since i > imported > > the whole module with "import MySQLdb" > > > > Thanks! > > > The point here is that MySQLdb is a package, not a module. Some packages > have their top-level __init__.py import the package's sub-modules or > sub-packages to make them immediately available within the package namespace > (which is why, for example, you can access os.path.* when you have imported > os) and others don't. > > MySQLdb clearly doesn't need to import the cursors module for its own > purposes. Perhaps it would be less efficient to always perfrom the import, > who knows. Well, Andy Dustman does, I suppose, and possibly anyone else who > reads the code, but I haven't done that myself. > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 > Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Vaibhav Bhawsar
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