[Zope] Z SQL row to dictionary

[Satheesh Babu]

> anybody know how to convert the row returned from
> an Z SQL into a dictionary?

You could write a Python function (or in Zope terms, a Python Script ) 
like this that converts an object to a dictionary


def class2dict(o):
     """Return a dictionary from object that has public
        variable -> key pairs
     """
     dict = {}
     #all the attributes in a class are already in __dict__
     for elem in o.__dict__.keys():
         if elem.find("_" + o.__class__.__name__) == 0:
             continue
             #We discard private variables, which are automatically
             #named _ClassName__variablename, when we define it in
             #the class as __variablename
         else:
             dict[elem] = o.__dict__[elem]
     return dict

Note: this is tested in Python world; but I haven't used it in Zope ZSQL.

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