Newbie's unsurmountable pb with IO stream trick

[Carsten Gaebler]

Spendius wrote:

> For those who know SQL*Plus y'all know you get a prompt:
> "SQL> " 
> (remove the "'s to get the string) and then this frontend
> Oracle software waits for your input. This is somewhat tricky 
> to deal with,

You'd be probably better off using a Python->Oracle interface like 
cx_Oracle (http://www.computronix.com/utilities/) to access your 
database directly than trying to mess with an interactive program.

cg.