Q:

Writing column names to file

I have an SQLite DB file and I am parsing the data from each column in a table of the db to a .txt file.  At the moment it is writing the column contents to the file but it won't pull the column names and write those.  How can I go about it as I have tried to use this guide Is there a way to get a list of column names in sqlite?  but i cannot seem to get it to work.  Here is my code with an attempt at pulling the column names from the table.  
import sqlite3
from sqlite3 import Error

# create a database connection to the SQLite database specified by the db_file
def create_connection(db_file,detect_types=sqlite3.PARSE_DECLTYPES):
    try:
        conn = sqlite3.connect(db_file)
        return conn
    except Error as e:
        print(e)

    return None

# Query specific rows in the sms table
def select_data(conn):
    cur = conn.cursor()

    cur.execute("SELECT _id, address, strftime('%d-%m-%Y', date / 1000, 'unixepoch'),read, type, body, seen FROM sms")
    print("Writing the contents of the sms table to an evidence file")
    print("\t")

# Trying to pull out column names from db table
def get_col_names():
    conn = sqlite3.connect("mmssms.db")
    c = conn.cursor()
    c.execute("SELECT _id, address, strftime('%d-%m-%Y', date / 1000, 'unixepoch'),read, type, body, seen FROM sms")
    return [member[0] for member in c.description]

    # Write the data to a smsEvidence.txt file
    with open('EvidenceExtractionFiles/smsInfo.txt', 'a+') as f:
        rows = cur.fetchall()
        for row in rows:
            #print(row)

            f.write("%s\n" % str(row))
        print("SMS Data is written to the evidence File")

# path to where the db files are stored
def main():
    database = "H:\College Fourth Year\Development Project\Final Year Project 2018\mmssms.db"

     # create a database connection
    conn = create_connection(database)
    with conn:

        # print("Query specific columns")
        select_data(conn)
    # close db connection
    if(conn):
        conn.close()
        print("Database closed")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

A:

You may use cursor.description which holds info about the column names:
[ ... ]
cur = cursor.execute('SELECT * FROM test_table LIMIT 100')
col_names = [ name[0] for name in cur.description ]
print (col_names)

[ ... ]

