Minor tweaks to the README.txt and BUILD.txt to account for changes over the

anthony-tuininga · anthony-tuininga · commit ffb8271e9335 · 2017-02-21T17:42:01.000-07:00
past few years.
diff --git a/BUILD.txt b/BUILD.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ oracle.com in order to successfully compile. Note, however, that if using RPMs
 you do not need to do anything as cx_Oracle will compile out of the box without
 any changes to the configuration of the machine.
 
-http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html
+http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index.html
 
 Each compressed tarball needs to be extracted to the exact same location.
 Uncompress and untar each file from the same location in order to achieve this
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ of libclntsh.so.
 Continue to step: Building and Compilation.
 
 
-OS X Build Hints
-----------------
+macOS Build Hints
+-----------------
 (Tested on Leopard 10.5.x)
 The procedures for OS X are almost idential to Linux except for the package
 names and a few environmental caveats. For OS X it is necessary to download
@@ -86,10 +86,7 @@ Continue to step: Building and Compilation.
 Building and Compilation
 ------------------------
 Use the provided setup.py to build and install the module which makes use of 
-the distutils module. Note that on Windows, I have used mingw32 
-(http://www.mingw.org) and the module will not build with MSVC without 
-modification. The commands required to build and install the module are as 
-follows:
+the distutils module.
 
     python setup.py build
     python setup.py install
@@ -103,8 +100,8 @@ cx_Oracle there should be a line containing only '>>>' which indicates the
 library successfully loaded.
 
     $ python
-    Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 25 2008, 19:37:28)
-    [GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)] on linux2
+    Python 3.6.0 (default, Jan  4 2017, 09:50:35)
+    [GCC 6.3.1 20161221 (Red Hat 6.3.1-1)] on linux
     Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
     >>> import cx_Oracle
     >>>
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Open Source Python/Oracle Utility - cx_Oracle
 ---------------------------------------------
+
 cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and 
 conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a number of
 additions. The time data type is not supported by Oracle and is therefore not
@@ -29,8 +30,8 @@ Place the file cx_Oracle.pyd or cx_Oracle.so anywhere on your Python path.
 
 Source Install
 --------------
-This module has been built with Oracle 10g, 11g and 12c on Linux and Windows.
-Others have reported success with other platforms such as Mac OS X.
+This module has been built with Oracle 11g and 12c on Linux, Windows and macOS.
+Others have reported success with other platforms.
 
 For simplified installation use pip
 
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ See BUILD.txt for additional information.
 Usage Example
 -------------
 
+from __future__ import print_function
+
 import cx_Oracle
 
 # connect via SQL*Net string or by each segment in a separate argument
@@ -63,7 +66,7 @@ cursor.execute("""
         arg_2 = 5,
         arg_3 = 15)
 for column_1, column_2, column_3 in cursor:
-    print "Values:", column_1, column_2, column_3
+    print("Values:", column_1, column_2, column_3)
 
 
 For more examples, please see the test suite in the test directory and the
@@ -73,5 +76,5 @@ cx_PyOracleLib (http://cx-pyoraclelib.sourceforge.net) projects.
 
 For further information see
 
-http://cx_oracle.readthedocs.org
+http://cx-oracle.readthedocs.io
 
