How can I make cx-oracle bind the results of a query to a dictionary rather than a tuple?

Question

Here is my code. I would like to find a way to have results from a query returned as a list of dictionaries rather than list of tuples. It seems like cx_oracle supports this wit

Answer 1

Here is a quick and dirty. Feel post a better way.

def connect():  
    dsn = cx_Oracle.makedsn("host", 1521, "sid")
    orcl = cx_Oracle.connect('scott/tiger@' + dsn)
    curs = orcl.cursor()
    sql = "select * from sometable"
    curs.execute(sql)
    fieldNumber = 0
    fieldNames={}
    for desc in curs.description:
        fieldNames[desc[0]]=fieldNumber
        fieldNumber+=1
    result = curs.fetchall()
    for row in result:
        print str(row[fieldNames['CATEGORY']])
    curs.close()