Question

I have this code which retrieves data from a mysql table. I am using Python’s MySQLdb module. I want EACH column’s data based on the SELECT WHERE condition to be retrieved under an array. For instance, in the code below, I want all the data where location field is ‘NY, US’ to be retrieved under different arrays – with each array representing different columns values.

import numpy
import MySQLdb

db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost", "root", "", "test")
cursor = db.cursor()

sql = "SELECT * FROM usa_new WHERE location = 'NY, US'"
try:
   cursor.execute(sql)
   results = cursor.fetchall()
   discresults = {}
   for row in results:

      id = row[0]
      location = row[1]
      temp_f = row[2]
      pressure_mb = row[3]
      wind_dir = row[4]
      wind_mph = row[5]
      relative_humidity = row[6]
      timestamp = row[7]

except:
   print "Error: unable to fecth data"

db.close()

Is there something going wrong?

Answer 1

There is a data structure called ‘list’ in python which you can use as array.
If your question’s semantic what I understood is
“Get the result in arrays categorized by columns, to be stored in local lists”, so here is simple implementation you can do:
remember I have fetched rows one by one matching the given criteria; as its a good practice;

import MySQLdb

db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost", "root", "", "test")
cursor = db.cursor()
id, location, temp_fm, pressure_mb, .. = [],[],[],[],...
//for the number of lists you want to create, just add their names and a empty list
sql = "SELECT * FROM usa_new WHERE location = 'NY, US'"

try:
   cursor.execute(sql)

   rcount = int(cursor.rowcount)

   for r in rcount:
      row = cursor.fetchone()

      id.append(row[0])
      location.append(row[1])
      temp_f.append(row[2])
      pressure_mb.append(row[3])
      wind_dir.append(row[4])
      wind_mph.append(row[5])
      relative_humidity.append(row[6])
      timestamp.append(row[7])

except:
   print "Error: unable to fecth data"

db.close()