Re: [cx-oracle-users] cx_Oracle 5.0.3

[Anthony T. <ant...@gm...>]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Doug Henderson <djh...@te...> wrote:
> On 2010-02-04 23:23, Anthony Tuininga wrote:
>> What is cx_Oracle?
>>
>> cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and
>> conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few
>> exceptions.
>>
>>
>> Where do I get it?
>>
>> http://cx-oracle.sourceforge.net
>>
>>
>> What's new?
>>
>> 1) Added support for 64-bit Windows.
>>
>> 2) Added support for Python 3.1 and dropped support for Python 3.0.
>>
>> 3) Added support for keyword arguments in cursor.callproc() and
>> cursor.callfunc().
>>
>> 4) Added documentation for the UNICODE and FIXED_UNICODE variable types.
>>
>> 5) Added extra link arguments required for Mac OS X as suggested by
>> Jason Woodward.
>>
>> 6) Added additional error codes to the list of error codes that raise
>> OperationalError rather than DatabaseError.
>>
>> 7) Fixed calculation of display size for strings with national
>> database character sets that are not the default AL16UTF16.
>>
>> 8) Moved the resetting of the setinputsizes flag before the binding
>> takes place so that if an error takes place and a new statement is
>> prepared subsequently, spurious errors will not occur.
>>
>> 9) Fixed compilation with Oracle 10g Release 1.
>>
>> 10) Tweaked documentation based on feedback from a number of people.
>>
>> 11) Added support for running the test suite using "python setup.py test"
>>
>> 12) Added support for setting the CLIENT_IDENTIFIER value in the
>> v$session table for connections.
>>
>> 13) Added exception when attempting to call executemany() with arrays
>> which is not supported by the OCI.
>>
>> 14) Fixed bug when converting from decimal would result in OCI-22062
>> because the locale decimal point was not a period. Thanks to Amaury
>> Forgeot d'Arc for the solution to this problem.
>>
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>
> Anthony,
>
> At least some of the cx_Oracle 5.0.3 windows installers that I
> downloaded from sourceforge are missing the cx_Oracle.pyd file. I tried
> cx_Oracle-5.0.3-10g.win32-py2.6.msi and
> cx_Oracle-5.0.3-11g.win32-py2.6.msi. The .MSI files are 32KB smaller
> than the 5.0.2 versions. Also, 7-Zip shows that this file is missing
> from the archives.

Yes, as it turns out all of the Windows installers had the same
problem. Argh! This is thanks to the fact that I am using a custom
build directory and there is a bug in distutils that prevents this
from being seen when building an MSI or an RPM. The RPM packages are
built on a virtual machine at home since I use Fedora there, not
CentOS -- so they weren't affected. At work, though, I was given a new
machine and I forgot to fix the bug before making the release. My
apologies for the difficulties. I'd love to see this bug fixed:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1109963

Anthony