cx_oracle and commands

[gaius hammond]

Hi all,


I am having a very strange problem with cx_Oracle, has anyone seen this kind of behavior before:



ActivePython 2.5.2.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Mar 27 2008, 18:53:24) [C] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from commands import getstatusoutput
>>> (status, output) = getstatusoutput('ls')
>>> status
0
>>> from cx_Oracle import connect, SYSDBA
>>> db = connect(mode=SYSDBA)
>>> (status, output) = getstatusoutput('ls')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/ASpy25/lib/python2.5/commands.py", line 55, in getstatusoutput
    sts = pipe.close()
IOError: [Errno 10] No child processes



Basically, once I have made a connection to Oracle I can no longer use getstatusoutput(). This is a real problem as
I need to get a list of things to work on from Oracle then spawn commands to process them...


Thanks,


G




 	
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