Using Oracle on Solaris

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

I need to write a tiny little program which makes use of an Oracle database 
on Solaris. Just a single SQL statement. Nice and simple.

Coming from a Windows/SQLServer/ADO background, I'm having a bit of trouble  
finding some of the basics.

Given that I already have Oracle and Python installed on the Solaris box, 
what else do I need?

A little code snippet would be very handy.

Thanks.