Question

I have created a string from

connectString = 'D:\Database\10.2.0\BIN\sqlplus.exe -L sys/PASSWORD'
output = str(call(connectstring))

this results from print output

stuff stuff stuff
  stuff even more stuff
ORA-28009
stuff stuff
  stuff and stuff

I do

output.find('ORA-28009')

but it does not find the string sequence. The only reason I can think of is because the string is multi line. How do I handle this?

Answer 1

This is what I did to solve it. The sPath variable is needed because I have two seperate instances of Oracle on the same server. To properly test the sys account password I needed to run the sqlplus contained in the specific dir with the correct password for that instance.

def startSQLHelper(self, sPath, sPassword):
  print '--starting SQL helper--'
  args = [sPath + 'sqlplus.exe', '-L', 'sys/'+sPassword]
  return subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

def checkOraPass (self, sPath, sPassword):
  print '--checkOraPass--'
  p = self.startSQLHelper(sPath, sPassword)
  output = p.communicate()[0]
  print output

  if output.find('ORA-28009') != -1:
     print 'Password passed'
     return True

  return False