Question

I perform this kind of query in my Python code to

conn = rdbms.connect(instance=_INSTANCE_NAME, database='tiger')
cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT * from terminals")
rows = cursor.fetchall()

After this I call a Jinja2 template, to which I pass the rows variable, which I can successullfy use there in a {% for row in rows %} code.

I could not find out how I can get the name of the columns. I tried to get it out of the rows variable, but in vain. Any idea?

Answer 1

After you execute your SQL query, try reading from the property cursor.description

With the MySQLdb module (not sure if you can use that specific module with Google Cloud-SQL), the .description will be a tuple of tuples, like ((field1_name, …), (field2_name, …), …)

I hope that solves your problem. Best wishes for your project and happy coding!