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authorArun Isaac2022-09-29 17:16:52 +0530
committerArun Isaac2022-09-29 17:16:52 +0530
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Replace MonadicDictCursor with sql_query_mdict.
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+++ b/topics/maybe-monad.gmi
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ foo.map(lambda x: 1 + x) \
.bind(print)
```
-Finally, let's put all this together in a practical example using the MonadicDictCursor from genenetwork. Consider the following code using the DictCursor. The column foo may contain NULL values, and we need to check for them.
+Finally, let's put all this together in a practical example using sql_query_mdict from genenetwork. Consider the following code using the DictCursor. The column foo may contain NULL values, and we need to check for them.
```
with conn.cursor(MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor) as cursor:
cursor.execute("SELECT foo FROM bar")
@@ -43,13 +43,12 @@ with conn.cursor(MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor) as cursor:
if row["foo"] is not None:
print(row["foo"])
```
-But, with the MonadicDictCursor, the row object is a MonadictDict where all values are monadic. We therefore do not need any special conditional checks.
+But, with sql_query_mdict, the row object is a MonadictDict where all values are monadic. We therefore do not need any special conditional checks.
```
-with conn.cursor(utility.monads.MonadicDictCursor) as cursor:
- cursor.execute("SELECT foo FROM bar")
- for row in cursor.fetchall():
- row["foo"].bind(print)
+for row in sql_query_mdict("SELECT foo FROM bar"):
+ row["foo"].bind(print)
```
+As a bonus, sql_query_mdict also gets rid of cursors by returning a generator and letting us iterate over it pythonically.
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