Python and Oracle 9i
Bob Lancaster
boblancaster at zxmail.com
Mon Feb 25 17:33:15 EST 2002
Thanks for the suggestion. I just downloaded mxODBC, and I will see
if it works better than DCOracle2. DCOracle2 was recently upgraded,
and it seems to work better, but still crashes at times.
-Bob
Gerhard Häring <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote in message news:<slrna7l5jn.1l8.gerhard at lilith.my-fqdn.de>...
> Gerhard Häring wrote in comp.lang.python:
> > Bob Lancaster wrote in comp.lang.python:
> >> I am in a bit of a quandry.
> >> I am writing a python module which converts some data from various
> >> python variables, lists, etc. into SQL, which in turn is inserted to
> >> or selected from a database.
> >>
> >> I need to support three combinations.
> >> (1) PostgreSQL and Linux, for academic customers. No serious problems
> >> here. In fact, I have learned why folks love PostgreSQL so much.
> >>
> >> (2) Oracle 9i and Linux. I haven't tried this one yet, but it seems
> >> to be at least as easy as the third combination.
> >>
> >> (3) Oracle 9i and Windows 2000, for industrial customers. Trouble!
> >> I have tried two approaches.
> >> (a) DCOracle2: builds, connects, but then does not work properly.
> >> I see two possible sources of the problem.
> >
> > Or:
> >
> > (4) Use a commercially supported DB module like mxODBC.
>
> Oops. I meant it could be a possible solution for your Oracle
> troubles, and it does run on Linux and Windows.
>
> Gerhard
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