# dict.py - using DictCUrsor/DictRow # # Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Federico Di Gregorio # # psycopg2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published # by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # psycopg2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public # License for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting) import sys import psycopg2 import psycopg2.extras if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print "Opening connection using dsn:", DSN conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) print "Encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding curs = conn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.DictCursor) curs.execute("SELECT 1 AS foo, 'cip' AS bar, date(now()) as zot") print "Cursor's row factory is", curs.row_factory data = curs.fetchone() print "The type of the data row is", type(data) print "Some data accessed both as tuple and dict:" print " ", data['foo'], data['bar'], data['zot'] print " ", data[0], data[1], data[2] # execute another query and demostrate we can still access the row curs.execute("SELECT 2 AS foo") print "The type of the data row is", type(data) print "Some more data accessed both as tuple and dict:" print " ", data['foo'], data['bar'], data['zot'] print " ", data[0], data[1], data[2] curs = conn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.RealDictCursor) curs.execute("SELECT 1 AS foo, 'cip' AS bar, date(now()) as zot") print "Cursor's row factory is", curs.row_factory data = curs.fetchone() print "The type of the data row is", type(data) print "Some data accessed both as tuple and dict:" print " ", data['foo'], data['bar'], data['zot'] print " ", "No access using indices: this is a specialized cursor." # execute another query and demostrate we can still access the row curs.execute("SELECT 2 AS foo") print "The type of the data row is", type(data) print "Some more data accessed both as tuple and dict:" print " ", data['foo'], data['bar'], data['zot'] print " ", "No access using indices: this is a specialized cursor."