Output pyodbc cursor results as python dictionary

Question

How do I serialize pyodbc cursor output (from .fetchone, .fetchmany or .fetchall) as a Python dictionary?

I\'m using bottlepy

Answer 1

I like @bryan and @foo-stack answers. If you are working with postgresql and you are using psycopg2 you could use some goodies from psycopg2 to achieve the same by specifying the cursorfactory being a DictCursor when creating your cursor from the connection, like this:

cur = conn.cursor( cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.DictCursor )

So now you can execute your sql query and you'll get a dictionary to fetch your results, without the need to map them by hand.

cur.execute( sql_query )
results = cur.fetchall()

for row in results:
    print row['row_no']

Please note that you'll have to import psycopg2.extras for that to work.