Re: [cx-oracle-users] Can't have access to a corrupted VARCHAR2.

[Walter <wa...@li...>]

On 19 Mar 2018, at 13:35, Stéphane JULIEN wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I downgraded Python to version 2.7. Then, I was able to have access to 
> the
> corrupted data because there is no automatic cp1252 decoding with 
> Python 2.
> Is there a way to prevent the automatic decoding with python 3 ? I 
> found no
> solution at this time.

Couldn't you set NLS_LANG to AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1, and read the 
data with that?

Then you could at least find out what the broken record is, and fix it 
by hand?

> Best wishes.
>
> Stéphane

Servus,
    Walter