From 679b3036c2d6c3715ede329aeb82aad17f5cea24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 16:34:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] - oracle py3k fix

---
 lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/oracle/base.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/oracle/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/oracle/base.py
index 4863b7ba18..6b6c32ae0f 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/oracle/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/oracle/base.py
@@ -1185,7 +1185,9 @@ class OracleDialect(default.DefaultDialect):
 
         rp = connection.execute(sql.text(text), **params).scalar()
         if rp:
-            return rp.decode(self.encoding)
+            if util.py2k:
+                rp = rp.decode(self.encoding)
+            return rp
         else:
             return None
 
-- 
2.47.3