Installation problems DCOracle2 & W2000

[Talon]

Hi all,

I am having a heck of a time getting DCOracle2 to funcion properly.  I 
am running on a W2K machine, python2.1.3 and Zope 2.5.1, both of which 
run just fine.  I installed DCOracle2 and the ZOracleDA under Zope and 
it works fine.  But standalone python scripts don't see the dco2.py 
module.  So I tried to install DCOracle2 in the python21/lib folder.  I 
got that latest version from Zope.org and it said it installed properly.  
But it doesn't run.  If you try to import it into a script, you get 
complaints that it can't find this or that module, all of which are part 
of the Zope path.

I tried the odbc package, and it works for SELECT's but has a problem 
with INSERT's.  I downloaded the mxODBC package, but haven't tried it 
yet and I've read about  the cxOracle module.  Does anyone have any 
advice?  The docs for Windows install of DCOracle2 are really poor and 
inconsistent.  I would like to stay with DCOracle2 if possible, since 
that is what is running on Zope, but I will consider anything that works.

TIA,

Mark