cx_oracle and commands

[Edwin.Madari at VerizonWireless.com]

gaius hammond Wrote:
>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,
>

There is no mode parameter to connect. use try-catch around 
db = connect(mode=SYSDBA) line to see what's going on.
 

Edwin 


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