ref: 34f5a8333090c5090e1d0b6ddbaf900d64340eea
dir: /sys/src/cmd/python/Doc/lib/sqlite3/simple_tableprinter.py/
import sqlite3 FIELD_MAX_WIDTH = 20 TABLE_NAME = 'people' SELECT = 'select * from %s order by age, name_last' % TABLE_NAME con = sqlite3.connect("mydb") cur = con.cursor() cur.execute(SELECT) # Print a header. for fieldDesc in cur.description: print fieldDesc[0].ljust(FIELD_MAX_WIDTH) , print # Finish the header with a newline. print '-' * 78 # For each row, print the value of each field left-justified within # the maximum possible width of that field. fieldIndices = range(len(cur.description)) for row in cur: for fieldIndex in fieldIndices: fieldValue = str(row[fieldIndex]) print fieldValue.ljust(FIELD_MAX_WIDTH) , print # Finish the row with a newline.