MySQLdb and column names

[beef]

Hello all,

I am using MySQLdb 1.2.2 and have a question about the construction of
the dictionary keys of a result set.

Here is an example query, from which you may intuit some of the
structure of the tables:

SELECT
shots.*,
users.*,
sequences.*,
jobs.*
FROM
shots
LEFT JOIN
users ON users.id=shots.user_id
INNER JOIN
sequences ON sequences.id=shots.sequence_id
INNER JOIN
jobs AS j ON j.id=sequences.job_id
WHERE
shots.id=%s

1. The 'users' table has a column named 'id', as do all the other
tables.
2. I define my cursor as a 'DictCursor' so that my results are
dictionaries
3. The 'shots' id has the key name of 'id', while all the -other-
'id's have key names of the form: "<TABLE>.id"

I would prefer to have the key names consistent, so that event the
"shots" fields have key names of the form "<TABLE>.id"

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance!

 

[beef]

change:
I would prefer to have the key names consistent, so that event the

to:
I would prefer to have the key names consistent, so that *even* the

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

SELECT
shots.*,
users.*,
sequences.*,
jobs.*
FROM
shots
LEFT JOIN
users ON users.id=shots.user_id
INNER JOIN
sequences ON sequences.id=shots.sequence_id
INNER JOIN
jobs AS j ON j.id=sequences.job_id
WHERE
shots.id=%s

3. The 'shots' id has the key name of 'id', while all the -other-
'id's have key names of the form: "<TABLE>.id"

The <TABLE> prefix is probably being used when the query processor
discovers that there are duplicate field names. IE, it is just
processing the table descriptions from left to right, and when a
subsequent table has the same field name as one that has already been
used, it prefaces the second (third, ...) with the source table.

I would prefer to have the key names consistent, so that event the
"shots" fields have key names of the form "<TABLE>.id"

Suggest, first step, do NOT use "table.*" notation, but rather
explicitly list the fields you want from each table, in the order you
want them. That, alone, might add the table names to all fields, though
I suspect not -- so use an "as xxx" renaming of the fields you need to
differentiate.

... shots.id as "shots.id", other.fields, other.tables...
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