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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:01:02 +1100
Subject: Re: DB API question - where is a stored procedure's return value?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:43 AM, John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> wrote:
>> select foo() as value from dual
>
> That will get the return value into an SQL variable, but the OP wanted
> to know how to fetch it from python code.

In theory, that should produce a one-row-one-column SELECT result,
which can then be retrieved as such. (I say "in theory" because not
all back-end databases support the "from dual" notation - which, by
the way, I find extremely odd; what's 'dual' about it?)

ChrisA