Understanding conn and cursor object vis-a-vis as_dict

[Larry Weisberg]

A general question.  If I have code like:

conn = pymssql.connect('serverName', user, pswd, 'dbname')

cursor = conn.cursor(as_dict=True)

cursor.execute("Some SQL")

In the debugger (pyCharm) if I look at either conn or cursor I see a protected attribute called as_dict; however, no matter when I look (at any step in above 3 lines), it is always False.  Why? It does seem to work, in that calls to fetchall() are returning dicts...

What am I missing here?

Thanks,

Larry