How do I get a list of column names from a psycopg2 cursor?

Question

I would like a general way to generate column labels directly from the selected column names, and recall seeing that python\'s psycopg2 module supports this feature.

Answer 1

I also used to face similar issue. I use a simple trick to solve this. Suppose you have column names in a list like

col_name = ['a', 'b', 'c']

Then you can do following

for row in cursor.fetchone():
    print zip(col_name, row)