cx_Oracle, is anything selected?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Damjan wrote:
> Is there a way to see if the SELECT in cx_Oracle didn't return anything?
> I want to optimize the situation when the number of selected rows is zero.
> Is select count(*) the only option, seems inefficient?

I don't understand your problem - if your select doesn't return 
anything, the fetch* methods on the cursor will tell you if there is any 
data to expect at all. Additionally there is teh rowcount-property that 
holds the number of rows the last execute* yielded.

Diez