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Asked: May 22, 20262026-05-22T23:01:55+00:00 2026-05-22T23:01:55+00:00

Periodically when using pyodbc to create a connection to an oracle database, it kills

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Periodically when using pyodbc to create a connection to an oracle database, it kills the interpreter.

import pyodbc
connectString = 'Driver={Microdsoft ODBC for Oracle};Server=<host>:<port>/<db>.<host>;uid=<username>;pwd=<password>'
cnxn = pyodbc.connect(connectString)

Say 1/5 of the time this will just drop me from the Python prompt (>>>) down to my dos prompt (C:)

Any ideas of why this happens or how to fix it?

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    2026-05-22T23:01:56+00:00Added an answer on May 22, 2026 at 11:01 pm

    We could not discover what was exactly causing this problem. Research leads us to think that there may be a problem with Python 2.7.1, PyODBC, and Win 2003 server.

    To fix this problem we created a jar file that executed the permission check and then had the python script call that file and return the result

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