Neat things you can do with namedtuples

tupletricks.py

import collections

Thing = collections.namedtuple('Thing', 'x y z a b c')


def get_by_id(db, thing_id):
    columns = ','.join(Thing._fields)  # "x,y,z,a,b,c"
    qry = 'SELECT {} FROM things WHERE id=?'.format(columns)
    row = db.execute(qry, (thing_id,)).fetchone()
    return Thing(*row)  # construct by expanding arguments


def print_thing(thing):
    # As an iterable tuple, it can be used in list comprehension.
    return '[{}]'.format(', '.join(str(f) for f in thing))