1 # dict.py - using DictCUrsor/DictRow
3 # Copyright (C) 2005 Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>
5 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
7 # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
10 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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12 # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
15 ## put in DSN your DSN string
19 ## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting)
23 import psycopg2.extras
28 print "Opening connection using dsn:", DSN
29 conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN)
30 print "Encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding
33 curs = conn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.DictCursor)
34 curs.execute("SELECT 1 AS foo, 'cip' AS bar, date(now()) as zot")
36 data = curs.fetchone()
37 print "Some data accessed both as tuple and dict:"
38 print " ", data['foo'], data['bar'], data['zot']
39 print " ", data[0], data[1], data[2]
41 # execute another query and demostrate we can still access the row
42 curs.execute("SELECT 2 AS foo")
43 print "Some more data accessed both as tuple and dict:"
44 print " ", data['foo'], data['bar'], data['zot']
45 print " ", data[0], data[1], data[2]