understanding .description newbie ?

johnf <jfabiani-rLSQ/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db.psycopg.devel
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Hi,
dbapi 2.0 defines what a cursor.description returns.  In my case the 
cursor.description returns {fieldName, someNumber, None,...}.  I would like 
to better understand what the "someNumber" means.  How does python know 
that '1043' is a varchar (python string??).

Thanks in advance.
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John Fabiani
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