The available columns for any given table are fetched from a system table called "sys_tablecolumns". A specific table name is provided in the WHERE criteria to restrict the table from which the column information is fetched:

import cdata.rest as mod
conn = mod.connect("DataModel=Relational;URI=C:\people.xml;Format=XML")
cur = conn.cursor()
cmd = "SELECT * FROM sys_tablecolumns WHERE TableName = 'NorthwindOData'"
cur.execute(cmd)
rs = cur.fetchall()
for row in rs:
	print(row)