Re: understanding .description newbie ?
johnf <jfabiani-rLSQ/[email protected]>
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On Tuesday 05 May 2009 09:59:29 am johnf wrote:
> 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.
A little more reseach revealed that the numbers are defined in pg_types.h ( a
header for postgres). If this is wrong would someone take the time to let me
know. From what I see it is a very close match.
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John Fabiani