Get dicts instead of lists from an arcpy.da SearchCursor

rowsasdicts.py

def rows_as_dicts(cursor):
    colnames = cursor.fields
    for row in cursor:
        yield dict(zip(colnames, row))

with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(r'c:\data\world.gdb\world_cities', '*') as sc:
    for row in rows_as_dicts(sc):
        print row['CITY_NAME']