Re: When I select a single column, can I prevent getting a list of one-element tuples? - Mailing list psycopg

From Nick Cash
Subject Re: When I select a single column, can I prevent getting a list of one-element tuples?
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In response to Re: When I select a single column, can I prevent getting a list of one-element tuples?  ("W. Matthew Wilson" <matt@tplus1.com>)
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You could always make use of tuple-unpacking and try something like

[element for (element,) in cursor.fetchall()]

It feels slightly more pythonic to me, though not by much.

Thanks,
Nick Cash

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From: psycopg-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:psycopg-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of W. Matthew Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 13:36
To: Daniele Varrazzo
Cc: psycopg@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [psycopg] When I select a single column, can I prevent getting a list of one-element tuples?

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com> wrote:

> No, there's nothing like this. For me, any attempt to add a feature
> and let the user choose whether to return one-column queries just as
> lists or as one-item tuples (a cursor subclass? a function?) seems
> more verbose than the [r[0] for r in cur] or map(itemgetter(0), cur)
> to get the data the way you want.

Thanks for the reply!  Mostly I wanted to make sure there wasn't already a standard solution out there.

For me, it just feels goofy to write something like [row[0] for row in cursor.fetchall()], but I understand where you
arecoming from. 

I like the cursor subclass idea so maybe I'll take a shot at something like that.

Matt

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