Thanks Jerry and Diez. The first two replies I found answered my noob question.
"Jerry Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Poppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I've been working on the code below and and executes silently, no >> complaints, however the end result should be a record in my table and >> it's >> not added. The procedure works with the passed credentials using SQLPlus >> or >> SQL Developer clients. However I'm not sure if I'm constructing my >> python >> code correctly to interact with Oracle. > ... >> connection.commit >> cur.close >> connection.close > > You have to actually call these methods: > connection.commit() > cur.close() > connection.close() > > Without the parentheses, you're just getting a reference to the > methods and immediately discarding them. > > -- > Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list