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GrayGeek jkrepsBEAR at FISHneb.rr.com
Thu Nov 6 19:24:50 EST 2003 
Andy Todd wrote:

> [snip]
>>>>mmm... the only Oracle onnection on my box is for the 9i database.
>>>>
>>>
>>>So, just to clarify, on your Windows box you now have *only* Python 2.2
>>>and the Oracle 9i client? I'm presuming also that your database is on
>>>another machine. And you've installed the appropriate cx_Oracle binary?
>>>Works for me;
>> 
>> 
>> Your assumptions are correct.  But, it doesn't work for me.
>> 
>> 
>>>PythonWin 2.2.1 (#34, Apr  9 2002, 19:34:33) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on
>>>win32. Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond
>>>(mhammond at skippinet.com.au) - see 'Help/About PythonWin' for further
>>>copyright information.
>>> >>> import cx_Oracle
>>> >>> cx_Oracle.version
>>>'3.1'
>>> >>> db=cx_Oracle.connect('andy/andy at melchett')
>>> >>> cursor=db.cursor()
>>> >>> cursor.execute("SELECT user FROM dual")
>>>[<StringVar object at 0x012AAF08>]
>>> >>> print cursor.fetchall()
>>>[('ANDY',)]
>>> >>>
>>>
>>>I also tried it with cx_Oracle version 2.5a, and then on my other
>>>machine with Python 2.3, the 9i client and version 3.0a of cx_Oracle.
>>>
>>>So, my guess is that you are still suffering from a DLL confusion
>>>(somewhere).
>> 
>> 
>> Probably true, but JDev9 and  PSQLDeveloper doesn't have any connection
>> problems.
>> ??
>> 
> 
> Well, you've got me beaten. I tried to break my system by downloading
> the Windows binary for Python 2.2 and Oracle8i, even though I have the
> 9i client - and it still worked.
> 
> The only combination I haven't tried, and I'm not going to, is the
> cx_Oracle binary built against the Oracle9i client with the Oracle8i
> client software which I suspect would break in the manner you describe.
> 
> As many people are successfully using cx_Oracle and you are the only one
> seeing this problem I still suspect the solution to your problem is in
> the combination of software you have running on your machine rather than
> a bug in cx_Oracle, Python or Oracle.
> 
> Officially-throwing-in-the-towel-ly y'rs,
> Andy

Thanks for the effort, Andy.  I think I will uninstall everything (except my
Oracle client) and reinstall.... again.  Ya never know.  That MS register
can do funny things....
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GrayGeek
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