From 3e80e2f0d3ee9cb7c2b65a7b68e7addfbf64ebe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Isaac
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:16:52 +0530
Subject: Replace MonadicDictCursor with sql_query_mdict.

---
 topics/maybe-monad.gmi | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'topics/maybe-monad.gmi')

diff --git a/topics/maybe-monad.gmi b/topics/maybe-monad.gmi
index 7f2afa9..dc3e0b7 100644
--- a/topics/maybe-monad.gmi
+++ 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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