Hi! I have a problem with the cx_Oracle module (Oracle database access):
On a computer with cx_Oracle version 4.1 (Python 2.4.3, Oracle 10g) I can get query results consisting of strings including non-ASCII characters, e.g. the code example below outputs "é 0xe9" (which is the correct ISO-8859-1 hex code for "é"). On a newer installation with cx_Oracle 4.3.3 (Python 2.5.1, connecting to the same Oracle 10g server) these characters are interpreted as ASCII (output "e 0x65"). The database encoding is the default (and it's the same DB in both cases anyways); I have no NLS environment environment variables set on either system (I'm running cygwin). The HISTORY file of my more recent cx_Oracle names a few changes related to character sets, but noone strikes me to be relevant for this case. There is non-ASCII data strings in a database, and I need to find a way to get it out correctly. Is anybody able to help me? Thanks! Ben #!/usr/bin/env python import cx_Oracle database = cx_Oracle.connect('login/[EMAIL PROTECTED]') curs = database.cursor() sql = """SELECT CHR(233) FROM DUAL""" curs.execute(sql) result = curs.fetchone()[0] print result, "0x%x" % ord(result) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list