RE: [cx-oracle-users] Inserting on table where is CLOB column

[Guido v. R. <gu...@el...>]

> connection =3D cx_Oracle.Connection("user/pw@tns")
> cursor =3D connection.cursor()
> cursor.setinputsizes(value =3D cx_Oracle.CLOB)
> cursor.execute("insert into table values (:value)",
>        value =3D "A very long string")

setinputsizes() isn't documented very clearly if you don't already know
what it does.  Could someone here explain its use (and for bonus points,
the use of setoutputsizes() as well)?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido)