MySQL Connector/Python Developer Guide / ... / Connector/Python API Reference / cursor.MySQLCursor Class / MySQLCursor.description Property
Syntax:
tuples = cursor.descriptionThis read-only property returns a list of tuples describing the columns in a result set. Each tuple in the list contains values as follows:
(column_name, type, None, None, None, None, null_ok, column_flags) The following example shows how to interpretdescription tuples:
import mysql.connectorfrom mysql.connector import FieldType...cursor.execute("SELECT emp_no, last_name, hire_date " "FROM employees WHERE emp_no = %s", (123,))for i in range(len(cursor.description)): print("Column {}:".format(i+1)) desc = cursor.description[i] print(" column_name = {}".format(desc[0])) print(" type = {} ({})".format(desc[1], FieldType.get_info(desc[1]))) print(" null_ok = {}".format(desc[6])) print(" column_flags = {}".format(desc[7]))The output looks like this:
Column 1: column_name = emp_no type = 3 (LONG) null_ok = 0 column_flags = 20483Column 2: column_name = last_name type = 253 (VAR_STRING) null_ok = 0 column_flags = 4097Column 3: column_name = hire_date type = 10 (DATE) null_ok = 0 column_flags = 4225 Thecolumn_flags value is an instance of theconstants.FieldFlag class. To see how to interpret it, do this:
>>> from mysql.connector import FieldFlag>>> FieldFlag.desc