From: | George Young <gry(at)ll(dot)mit(dot)edu> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: viewing the description of tables from python DB-API |
Date: | 2006-08-07 19:20:31 |
Message-ID: | 20060807152031.e3e1ef59.gry@ll.mit.edu |
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:30:48 -0700
"Daniel Joo" <djoo(at)vistagen-inc(dot)com> wrote:
> Is there a way to view the list of all tables from python (or any other
> languages for that matter) DB-API? What I'm looking for is a command
> similar to the meta-command '\d' that works with the psql client.
The cursor object has a "description" data member.
Look at the DB-API spec: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/
under "Cursor Objects".
Python 2.3.3 (#1, Jan 3 2004, 07:17:11)
[GCC 3.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pgdb
>>> db=pgdb.connect(database='pigrestore', host='ivy')
>>> cur=db.cursor()
>>> cur.execute('select * from machine')
>>> print cur.description
[('machine_name', 'text', -1, -1, None, None, None), ('machine_id', 'int2', -1, 2, None, None, None), ('area', 'text', -1, -1, None, None, None), ('text', 'text', -1, -1, None, None, None)]
>>>
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