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Subject: Re: More general way of generating PyODBC queries as a dict?
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 19:33:18 -0400
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On Tue, 21 May 2013 10:27:07 -0700 (PDT), stackoverflowuser95@gmail.com
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

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> For example, when multiple tables are queried; some hackish lambdas are required to generate the resulting dictionary.
> 
> Can you think of some more general methods?
>
	What about using the information from 

		cursor.description

You did state PyODBC, did you not?

"""
description

This read-only attribute is a list of 7-item tuples, each containing
(name, type_code, display_size, internal_size, precision, scale,
null_ok). pyodbc only provides values for name, type_code,
internal_size, and null_ok. The other values are set to None.  
"""
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