support within Python 2.x; move away from character semantics which Oracle is
deprecating anyway to byte semantics which should hopefully eliminate the
problem with a backend character set of UTF-8.
the code is structured so that this can be done with Python 2.x as well if
desired; the only thing currently working is the determination of error
messages.
shared without having to specify such; remove references to methods that get
the attributes and methods dynamically since these are deprecated in Python 2.6
and above. Thanks to Amaury Forgeot d'Arc for the initial patch.
at the connection and cursor levels. This handler will be called for each
variable being defined with the parameters cursor, name, defaultType, size,
precision and scale and expects to have a variable of the correct type
returned or None to indicate that default processing should take place.
NATIVE_FLOAT to allow specification of a variable of that specific type where
desired. Thanks to D.R. Boxhoorn for pointing out the fact that this was not
working properly when the arraysize was anything other than 1.
