Lets switch to SqlAlchemy to get columns

#!/bin/python27

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, Table
from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session,sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
import sqlite3

class DBSession1():
    def __init__(self):
        dbhost = "x"
        dbuser = "x"
        dbpass = "x"
        dbdbas = "x"
        self.engine1= create_engine('mysql://' + dbuser + ":" + dbpass + "@" + dbhost + "/" + dbdbas)
        self.Base1 = declarative_base()
        return None

if __name__=="__main__":

    x = DBSession1()
    customers = Table('customer', x.Base1.metadata, autoload=True, autoload_with=x.engine1)
    print customers.columns

Once again, we get a list of columns.You will need to put your MySql database credential in for this to work, often times the host is localhost.

Here is a loop to look at even more information on the database columns. You can tack this onto the end of the code segment above.

    for col in customers.columns:
        print col.name,col.type,col.nullable,col.primary_key,col.foreign_keys