Re: RealDictCursor behavior question

On Apr 30, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com<mailto:xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>> wrote:

On Apr 30, 2018, at 12:19, Israel Brewster <ibrewster(at)flyravn(dot)com<mailto:ibrewster(at)flyravn(dot)com>> wrote:
Yes, that is good reasoning *in general*, however in my particular use case, using `select *` makes things so much cleaner as to be worth the -again, in my use case - quite small risk. At least, until now that was the case. :-)

Remember that you can always introspect the column names, cache them locally, and then create whatever dict you want. That way, it's 100% guaranteed to do the right thing for your application.

Good point. I'll have to do that :-) Should be easy enough, since I know which columns I need to mess with. Sometimes it's the simple solutions...

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