My apologies for reposting this announcement, but I forgot one critical piece of information: the URL for downloading! http://www.computronix.com/utilities I am pleased to announce the availability of a new version of cx_Oracle, the Python interface to Oracle. New in this release: 1) String variables can now be made any length (previously restricted to the 64K limit imposed by Oracle for default binding); use the type cx_Oracle.LONG_STRING as the argument to setinputsizes() for binding in string values larger than 4000 bytes. 2) Raw and long raw columns are now supported; use the types cx_Oracle.BINARY and cx_Oracle.LONG_BINARY as the argument to setinputsizes() for binding in values of these types. 3) Functions DateFromTicks(), TimeFromTicks() and TimestampFromTicks() are now implemented. 4) Function cursor.setoutputsize() implemented 5) Added the ability to bind arrays as out parameters to procedures; use the format [cx_Oracle.<DataType>, <NumElems>] as the input to the function setinputsizes() for binding arrays 6) Discovered from the Oracle 8.1.6 version of the documentation of the OCI libraries, that the size of the memory location required for the precision variable is larger than the printed documentation says; this was causing a problem with the code on the Sun platform. 7) Now support building RPMs for Linux (built on Red Hat Linux 7.2 but will likely work on other distributions) NOTE: As some of these things extend the DB API, comments are most welcome on whether this implementation is sensible! Anthony