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Re: [Gnumed-devel] curs.fetchone() ...


From: Karsten Hilbert
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] curs.fetchone() ...
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:03:48 +0100
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> but you can also do 
> result, = curs.fetchone()
> which delivers just the row, no a list of rows with one element only

which will fail, however, if result happens to be None ... :-(

The point being that really one needs to do:

curs.execute(select name from person where ...;)
result = curs.fetchone()
if result is None:
    fail
name, = result (or name = result[0]

Unfortunately, they don't return '[None]' on None.

Karsten
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