On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:34 AM Tony van der Hoff <li...@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
>
> I'm writing a database application, in python 3,5 under Debian9.
>
> My code:
>
> def get_albums(self, parent_id = 0 ):
> cursor = self.cnx.cursor()
> sql =( "select"
> " id"
> ", parent_id"
> ", title"
> ", ifnull( description, '' )"
> ", path"
> ", date( from_unixtime( date_created ) ) as date"
> " from album"
> " where parent_id = %(parent_id)s"
> " order by date_created"
> )
> cursor.execute( sql, {'parent_id': parent_id } )
> rows = cursor.fetchall()
>
> # return result as a list of dicts
> result = []
>
> for row in rows:
> result.append({ 'id':row[0],
> 'parent_id':row[1],
> 'title':row[2],
> 'description':row[3],
> 'path':row[4],
> 'date':row[5],
> }
> )
> return result
>
> This works OK, but looks inelegant. Having to iterate through the
> returned data to get it into a dictionary is error-prone if the query
> changes. I would have expected the connector to be able to return a
> dictionary.
>
> Can anyone suggest a better way of doing this?
https://pymysql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/cursors.html#pymysql.cursors.DictCursor
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