How to retrieve SQL result column value using column name in Python?

Question

The MySQLdb module has a DictCursor:

Use it like this (taken from Writing MySQL Scripts with Python DB-API):

cursor = conn.cursor(MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor)
cursor.execute("SELECT name, category FROM animal")
result_set = cursor.fetchall()
for row in result_set:
    print "%s, %s" % (row["name"], row["category"])

edit: According to user1305650 this works for pymysql as well.

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Now you can use mysql.connector to retrive a dictionary as shown here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/connector-python-api-mysqlcursordict.html

Here is the example on the mysql site:

cnx = mysql.connector.connect(database='world')
cursor = cnx.cursor(dictionary=True)
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM country WHERE Continent = 'Europe'")

print("Countries in Europe:")
for row in cursor:
    print("* {Name}".format(Name=row['Name']))

you must look for something called " dictionary in cursor "

i'm using mysql connector and i have to add this parameter to my cursor , so i can use my columns names instead of index's

db = mysql.connector.connect(
    host=db_info['mysql_host'],
    user=db_info['mysql_user'],
    passwd=db_info['mysql_password'],
    database=db_info['mysql_db'])

cur = db.cursor()

cur = db.cursor( buffered=True , dictionary=True)

import pymysql

# Open database connection
db = pymysql.connect("localhost","root","","gkdemo1")

# prepare a cursor object using cursor() method
cursor = db.cursor()

# execute SQL query using execute() method.
cursor.execute("SELECT * from user")

# Get the fields name (only once!)
field_name = [field[0] for field in cursor.description]

# Fetch a single row using fetchone() method.
values = cursor.fetchone()

# create the row dictionary to be able to call row['login']
**row = dict(zip(field_name, values))**

# print the dictionary
print(row)

# print specific field
print(**row['login']**)

# print all field
for key in row:
    print(**key," = ",row[key]**)

# close database connection
db.close()