On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +0100, Ken Guest wrote:
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> Well, I'm not too gone on python+mysql as the module I'm
> using, mySQLdb, does away with referring to the fields by name which
> means you have to be very very careful when adding field values to
> be retrieved from the database - I'd be more inclined to stick
> to php+mysql for that kind of stuff.
I'm not sure I know _exactly_ what you mean by this, but with MySQLdb
you can pick a cursor class which returns dictionary objects from
SELECTs, which allows you to play with the recordset in a very
Python-esque way.
David
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