Issue #21718: Merge from 3.5

Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py

@@ -274,6 +274,45 @@ class ColNamesTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.cur.execute("select * from test where 0 = 1")
         self.assertEqual(self.cur.description[0][0], "x")
 
+    def CheckCursorDescriptionInsert(self):
+        self.cur.execute("insert into test values (1)")
+        self.assertIsNone(self.cur.description)
+
+
+@unittest.skipIf(sqlite.sqlite_version_info < (3, 8, 3), "CTEs not supported")
+class CommonTableExpressionTests(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.con = sqlite.connect(":memory:")
+        self.cur = self.con.cursor()
+        self.cur.execute("create table test(x foo)")
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        self.cur.close()
+        self.con.close()
+
+    def CheckCursorDescriptionCTESimple(self):
+        self.cur.execute("with one as (select 1) select * from one")
+        self.assertIsNotNone(self.cur.description)
+        self.assertEqual(self.cur.description[0][0], "1")
+
+    def CheckCursorDescriptionCTESMultipleColumns(self):
+        self.cur.execute("insert into test values(1)")
+        self.cur.execute("insert into test values(2)")
+        self.cur.execute("with testCTE as (select * from test) select * from testCTE")
+        self.assertIsNotNone(self.cur.description)
+        self.assertEqual(self.cur.description[0][0], "x")
+
+    def CheckCursorDescriptionCTE(self):
+        self.cur.execute("insert into test values (1)")
+        self.cur.execute("with bar as (select * from test) select * from test where x = 1")
+        self.assertIsNotNone(self.cur.description)
+        self.assertEqual(self.cur.description[0][0], "x")
+        self.cur.execute("with bar as (select * from test) select * from test where x = 2")
+        self.assertIsNotNone(self.cur.description)
+        self.assertEqual(self.cur.description[0][0], "x")
+
+
 class ObjectAdaptationTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def cast(obj):
         return float(obj)
@@ -372,7 +411,8 @@ def suite():
     adaptation_suite = unittest.makeSuite(ObjectAdaptationTests, "Check")
     bin_suite = unittest.makeSuite(BinaryConverterTests, "Check")
     date_suite = unittest.makeSuite(DateTimeTests, "Check")
-    return unittest.TestSuite((sqlite_type_suite, decltypes_type_suite, colnames_type_suite, adaptation_suite, bin_suite, date_suite))
+    cte_suite = unittest.makeSuite(CommonTableExpressionTests, "Check")
+    return unittest.TestSuite((sqlite_type_suite, decltypes_type_suite, colnames_type_suite, adaptation_suite, bin_suite, date_suite, cte_suite))
 
 def test():
     runner = unittest.TextTestRunner()

Misc/NEWS

@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #21718: cursor.description is now available for queries using CTEs.
+
 - Issue #27819: In distutils sdists, simply produce the "gztar" (gzipped tar
   format) distributions on all platforms unless "formats" is supplied.
 

Modules/_sqlite/cursor.c

@@ -645,12 +645,11 @@ PyObject* _pysqlite_query_execute(pysqlite_Cursor* self, int multiple, PyObject*
             goto error;
         }
 
-        if (rc == SQLITE_ROW || (rc == SQLITE_DONE && statement_type == STATEMENT_SELECT)) {
+        if (rc == SQLITE_ROW || rc == SQLITE_DONE) {
-            if (self->description == Py_None) {
             Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
             numcols = sqlite3_column_count(self->statement->st);
             Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
-
+            if (self->description == Py_None && numcols > 0) {
                 Py_SETREF(self->description, PyTuple_New(numcols));
                 if (!self->description) {
                     goto error;