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On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:52:32 +0000, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com>
declaimed the following:

>On 2016-02-18 12:08, tdsperth@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I have many mysql tables in a conversion I am doing - the table field names are a mixture of lower case and upper case - do I have to covert all to one case to over come Python not finding the field.
>>
>> rows ocur.fetchall()
>> for row in rows:
>>      print(row['newname'])
>>      #which fails because it is upper case in the table
>>
>According to this:
>
>MySQL query to get column names?
>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4165195/mysql-query-to-get-column-names
>
>it's possible to get the column names.
>
>You could then build a dict to map a lowercase column name to an actual 
>column name.

	Uhm... If pymysql is db-api compliant, you shouldn't need a query just
for the names... Any cursor that returns results has a description of the
fields in that result...

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/#cursor-attributes

	One could build the mapping from the cursor.description attribute.
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