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Doc bug: cursor_description attribute on Row object #657
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Describe the bug
According to the documentation for Row:
Attributes
cursor_description A copy of the Cursor.description object from the Cursor that created this row. This contains the column names and data types of the columns. See [Cursor.description](https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-python/wiki/Cursor#description)
... that doesn't seem to be true. The row class exposes no such attribute. I'm fine with that and I think #613 will satisfy most use cases here. So I think the doc just needs to get updated.
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github-actions commentedon Jul 1, 2026
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jahnvi480 commentedon Jul 2, 2026
Thanks for reporting this @amachanic. I can confirm this is indeed a documentation bug — the Row class does not expose a cursor_description attribute. The class internally holds a _cursor reference but never surfaces cursor.description as a public property.
Fix needed: The Row wiki page should have the cursor_description attribute removed from the Attributes section, since it was never implemented.