unicode strings. These are not explicitly supported in Oracle but can be used
to bind to NCLOB, for example, without getting the "unimplemented or
unreasonable conversion requested" error.
deprecating allocelems (replaced by numElements) and maxlength (replaced by
bufferSize); avoid increasing memory allocation for strings when using variable
width character sets and increasing the number of elements in a variable during
executemany(). Thanks to Don Reid for pointing out this issue.
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.
