Can I pass a cursor to a function?

[jestes39 at yahoo.com]

I am trying to figure out whether or not Python will let me pass a 
cursor variable to a function so that I don't have to create another 
connection instance to Oracle. Here's the chunk of code:

    try:
        dbc = odbc.odbc(conn_str)
        crsr = dbc.cursor()
    except:
        raise database_error        

    while 1:
        sql = "SELECT DATA, ROWID FROM <TABLE_NAME>;"
        crsr.execute(sql)
        records = crsr.fetchall()
        for record in records:
            pid = `record`[2:4]
            rowid = `record`[129:-2]
            row_flag = 'TRUE'

            if row_flag == 'TRUE':
                if pid == 'RE':
                    receipt_flag = 'TRUE'
                    receipt_mod.receipt(crsr,record)
            else:
                time.sleep(5)

I set data up so that both if statements evaluate to true, the flag 
is set, and the receipt function is invoked. I get this error if I 
try to pass dbc or crsr: 
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\proc_mgr.py", line 33, in ?
  receipt_mod.receipt(crsr,record)
  AttributeError: receipt

If I just pass the record variable, things work fine. Is there a way 
that I can pass crsr that I am not seeing or can I make it global and 
use it in the function that way? Any help or suggestions will be 
appreciated. Thanks.

Jason