How to retrieve SQL result column value using column name in Python?

Question

Is there a way to retrieve SQL result column value using column name instead of column index in Python? I\'m using Python 3 with mySQL. The syntax I\'m looking for is pretty

Answer 1

This post is old but may come up via searching.

Now you can use mysql.connector to retrive a dictionary as shown here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/connector-python-api-mysqlcursordict.html

Here is the example on the mysql site:

cnx = mysql.connector.connect(database='world')
cursor = cnx.cursor(dictionary=True)
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM country WHERE Continent = 'Europe'")

print("Countries in Europe:")
for row in cursor:
    print("* {Name}".format(Name=row['Name']))