[cx-oracle-users] cursor.rowcount not functioning as expected

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I haven't seen any messages on this list for several days.
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I am starting to use cx_Oracle and happy to have it so, thanks Anthony for sharing your work.

Maybe I am not understanding something about the documentation of cursor.rowcount 
The documentation at:

    https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/#cursor-attributes    says:

.rowcount
This read-only attribute specifies the number of rows that the last .execute*() produced (for DQL statements like SELECT ) or affected (for DML statements like UPDATE or INSERT ).


I have a cursor variable in the interpreter as 'cur':

>>> cur.execute('select * from isotope')
<__builtin__.OracleCursor on <cx_Oracle.Connection to some_user@some_sid>>
>>> cur.rowcount
0
>>> recs = cur.fetchall()
>>> recs[0]
('Co-55', 'Cobalt 55', None, None)
>>> len(recs)
389
>>> cur.rowcount
389

I think cur.rowcount should return 389 in the first call above.
Is that not the right interpretation?

Thanks,
Erik Johnson