[cx-oracle-users] Problem with cx_Oracle 5.0.4 and Unicode support for Oracle 10g

[W. C. T. <cra...@gm...>]

I'm trying to use cx_Oracle 5.0.4 on 64-bit RedHat EL 5.5 / CentOS 5.5) with
Python 2.6 and Oracle 10g (client libraries 10.2.0).

When I build cx_Oracle without Unicode support, it all works as expected.
When I build cx_Oracle *with* Unicode support, attempting to use a query
that returns a numeric value (such as):

con = Connection( ... )
cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute( 'SELECT 1 FROM DUAL' )
rows = cur.fetchall()

 results in this exception:

cx_Oracle.DatabaseError: OCI-22061: invalid format text [T

I've tried the SourceForge RPMs and I've tried installing from the source
tar, and the results are consistent -- without Unicode works, with Unicode
fails.

All help will be greatfully appreciated.

- Craig -