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py3interm/EXAMPLES/db_mysql_named_tuple_cursor.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from contextlib import closing
+from collections import namedtuple
+import pymysql
+
+
+def named_tuple_cursor(cursor):
+    '''Generate rows as named tuple'''
+    column_names = [desc[0] for desc in cursor.description]
+    row_tuple = namedtuple('row_tuple', column_names)
+    # "row_tuple" is internal name of row_tuple class
+    for cursor_row in cursor.fetchall():
+        yield row_tuple(*cursor_row)
+
+
+with closing(pymysql.connect(
+    host="localhost",
+    db="presidents",
+    user="scripts",
+    passwd="scripts",
+)) as myconn:
+    c = myconn.cursor()
+
+    # select first name, last name from all presidents
+    num_recs = c.execute('''
+        select lastname, firstname
+        from presidents
+    ''')
+
+    for row in named_tuple_cursor(c):
+        print(row.firstname, row.lastname)