Re: iterating over DictRow

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Karsten Hilbert <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net>, psycopg(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: iterating over DictRow
Date: 2020-09-25 16:06:43
Message-ID: 4975719e-8981-c2ff-1408-c348730b31c5@aklaver.com
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On 9/25/20 12:48 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> thanks for tracing my misunderstanding. I should have
> confirmed my suspicion here:
>
>> https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/blob/fbba461052ae6ebc43167ab69ad91cadb7914c83/lib/extras.py
>
>> class DictRow(list):
>
>> def __getitem__(self, x):
>> if not isinstance(x, (int, slice)):
>> x = self._index[x]
>> return super(DictRow, self).__getitem__(x)
>>
>> So if the value passed to __getitem__() is a integer or slice it does a list
>> index.
>
> Indeed. I wonder whether that should be mentioned in the
> psycopg2 docs somewhere as it might be considered to violate
> the Principle Of Least Astonishment.
>
> Or rather, this issues seems unfortunate fallout from python3:
>
> In py2 one *had* to do DictRow.keys() to iterate over the
> keys. In py3
>
> for key in DictRow:
>
> is the suggested idiom for that which, however, iterates over
> DictRow as a list (as it always did).
>
> DictRow.keys() still exists on dicts in py3 (and is not
> deprec(i?)ated to my knowledge) but now returns a memoryview
> (dict_keys, that is) rather than a list, which brings with it
> its own set of issues (dict and keys "list" are not
> independant objects anymore).
>
> So, neither using py2's
>
> for key in DictRow.keys():
>
> under py3 nor changing to py3's
>
> for key in DictRow: # beep: variable wrongly named
>
> leads to fully equivalent code. So this is a py2/py3 Gotcha
> in psycopg2.

Well you can do, borrowing from previous example:

for ky in r0._index:
print(ky)

line_id
category
cell_per
ts_insert
ts_update
user_insert
user_update
plant_type
season
short_category

for ky in r0._index:
print(r0[ky])

5
H PREM 3.5
18
None
2004-06-02 15:11:26
None
postgres
herb
none
HP3

Where _index is a substitute for *.keys().

>
> Not that I complain, but worth a mention in the DictRow docs
> somewhere ?
>
> Karsten
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>
>

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Adrian Klaver
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