MySQL: Get column name or alias from query

Question

I\'m not asking for the SHOW COLUMNS command.

I want to create an application that works similarly to heidisql, where you can specify an SQL query and w

Answer 1

This is only an add-on to the accepted answer:

def get_results(db_cursor):
    desc = [d[0] for d in db_cursor.description]
    results = [dotdict(dict(zip(desc, res))) for res in db_cursor.fetchall()]
    return results

where dotdict is:

class dotdict(dict):
    __getattr__ = dict.get
    __setattr__ = dict.__setitem__
    __delattr__ = dict.__delitem__

This will allow you to access much easier the values by column names.
Suppose you have a user table with columns name and email:

cursor.execute('select * from users')
results = get_results(cursor)
for res in results:
  print(res.name, res.email)