Re: [cx-oracle-users] Client encoding under Cygwin

[Ian K. <ian...@gm...>]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <ama...@gm...> wrote:
> 2010/12/2 Ian Kelly <ian...@gm...>
>>
>> AFAICT, the solution suggested there is not viable in Python because
>> Pywin32 does not build under Cygwin.
>
> You can still use the ctypes module:
>>>> import ctypes
>>>> ctypes.CDLL('kernel32').SetEnvironmentVariableA('NLS_LANG', '.UTF8')

Yep, that does the trick.  Thanks!