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Documentation: Clarify instructions about changing row_factory for SQLite3 (#1573)

* Clarify instructions about changing row_factory

When I was working through the tutorial, this was very confusing to me; so, I've added the code and clarification that would have helped me get through it faster.

* Clarify the nature of Row objects

* Rewrite code example for further clarity.
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Leo Tindall 8 years ago committed by Jeff Widman
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@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ Now in each request handling function you can access `g.db` to get the
current open database connection. To simplify working with SQLite, a
row factory function is useful. It is executed for every result returned
from the database to convert the result. For instance, in order to get
dictionaries instead of tuples, this could be inserted into ``get_db``::
dictionaries instead of tuples, this could be inserted into the ``get_db``
function we created above::
def make_dicts(cursor, row):
return dict((cursor.description[idx][0], value)
@ -79,10 +80,26 @@ dictionaries instead of tuples, this could be inserted into ``get_db``::
db.row_factory = make_dicts
Or even simpler::
This will make the sqlite3 module return dicts for this database connection, which are much nicer to deal with. Even more simply, we could place this in ``get_db`` instead::
db.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
This would use Row objects rather than dicts to return the results of queries. These are ``namedtuple`` s, so we can access them either by index or by key. For example, assuming we have a ``sqlite3.Row`` called ``r`` for the rows ``id``, ``FirstName``, ``LastName``, and ``MiddleInitial``::
>>> # You can get values based on the row's name
>>> r['FirstName']
John
>>> # Or, you can get them based on index
>>> r[1]
John
# Row objects are also iterable:
>>> for value in r:
... print(value)
1
John
Doe
M
Additionally, it is a good idea to provide a query function that combines
getting the cursor, executing and fetching the results::

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