<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >fieldnum</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.73 "><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 7.3.2 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Query Result Object: pgqueryobject" HREF="pygresql-pg-pgqueryobject.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="fieldname" HREF="pygresql-pgqueryobject-fieldname.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ntuples" HREF="pygresql-pgqueryobject-ntuples.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2003-02-03T20:17:34"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PostgreSQL 7.3.2 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="pygresql-pgqueryobject-fieldname.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="pygresql-pgqueryobject-ntuples.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="PYGRESQL-PGQUERYOBJECT-FIELDNUM" >fieldnum</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN30606" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >fieldnum -- get field number by name</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN30609" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >fieldnum(<TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >name</I ></TT >)</PRE ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-PYGRESQL-PGQUERYOBJECT-FIELDNUM-1" ></A ><H3 >Parameters</H3 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >name</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > field name (string). </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-PYGRESQL-PGQUERYOBJECT-FIELDNUM-2" ></A ><H3 >Return Type</H3 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT >integer</DT ><DD ><P > field number (integer). </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-PYGRESQL-PGQUERYOBJECT-FIELDNUM-3" ></A ><H3 >Exceptions</H3 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="CLASSNAME" >TypeError</TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Bad parameter type, or too many arguments. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="CLASSNAME" >ValueError</TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Unknown field name. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="CLASSNAME" >pg.error</TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Invalid query result, or invalid connection. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-PYGRESQL-PGQUERYOBJECT-FIELDNUM-1" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >fieldnum()</TT > method returns a field number from its name. It can be used to build a function that converts result list strings to their correct type, using a hardcoded table definition. The number returned is the field rank in the result values list. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="pygresql-pgqueryobject-fieldname.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="pygresql-pgqueryobject-ntuples.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >fieldname</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="pygresql-pg-pgqueryobject.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ntuples</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >