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

You didn't provide many details, but you could try something like this:

# conn is an ODBC connection to the DB
dbCursor = conn.cursor()
sql = ('select field1, field2 from table') 
dbCursor = conn.cursor()
dbCursor.execute(sql)
for row in dbCursor:
    # Now you should be able to access the fields as properties of "row"
    myVar1 = row.field1
    myVar2 = row.field2
conn.close()