[DB-SIG] newbee help with DCOracle

[Andreas Jung]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 09:57:01AM -0800, Turney, James wrote:
> I have managed to get DCOracle1.3.2 to compile and link on a Solaris 2.6
> system using Oracle 7.3.4.
> The test program that comes with DCOracle seems to open a connection to the
> database.  When I attempt to use any of the methods Connection objects are
> supposed to support I get a message similar to the following: "Connection
> object has no attribute".
> For example, if the following is run from the python interpreter 
> 
> 
> import Buffer, oci_, sys
> 
> print 'Import succeeded'
> 
> dbc=oci_.Connect('dbuserid/dbpassword)
> 
> dbc.close()
> 
> The execution of the dbc.close() always results in the following message:
> AttributeError: 'Connection' object has no attribute 'close'
> 
> I have placed the DCOracle package (including the shared objects created) in
> my path and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 

Please read the docs. It is not suggested to use directly the oci_ module.
Instead import the DCOracle package - this should fix your problem.

Cheers,
Andreas