Including column names when converting an .mdb file to .csv in Python

Question

I've managed to convert a .mdb file to .csv, based on this post: How to export MS Access table into a csv file in Python using e.g. pypyodbc.

However, I can not get the metadata (column name) from the original file. Does anyone have a clue on how to do that?

Thanks!

Have you had a look at this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15098747/getting-table-and-column-names-in-pyodbc ? — David, Mar 20 '20 at 00:13

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '20 at 22:33

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Simply retrieve headers from cursor.description where you will call writerow just before iterating through cursor results:

# OPEN CSV AND ITERATE THROUGH RESULTS
with open('CSVDatabaseWithHeaders.csv', 'w', newline='') as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)    
    # ADD LINE BEFORE LOOP
    writer.writerow([i[0] for i in cur.description])  

    for row in cur.fetchall() :
        writer.writerow(row)

answered Mar 19 '20 at 22:33

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Perfect! Thank you! – Coraline Mar 19 '20 at 22:41

Including column names when converting an .mdb file to .csv in Python

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