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27 changes: 9 additions & 18 deletions Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
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Expand Up @@ -546,25 +546,16 @@ Connection objects

Example:

.. testcode::

def dict_factory(cursor, row):
d = {}
for idx, col in enumerate(cursor.description):
d[col[0]] = row[idx]
return d

con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
con.row_factory = dict_factory
cur = con.execute("SELECT 1 AS a")
print(cur.fetchone()["a"])

con.close()

.. testoutput::
:hide:
.. doctest::

1
>>> def dict_factory(cursor, row):
... col_names = [col[0] for col in cursor.description]
... return {key: value for key, value in zip(col_names, row)}
>>> con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
>>> con.row_factory = dict_factory
>>> for row in con.execute("SELECT 1 AS a, 2 AS b"):
... print(row)
{'a': 1, 'b': 2}

If returning a tuple doesn't suffice and you want name-based access to
columns, you should consider setting :attr:`row_factory` to the
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