[1.0.X] Removed support for passing params as dicts in the oracle backend....

    charset = 'utf-8'

    def _format_params(self, params):

        if isinstance(params, dict):

            result = {}

            for key, value in params.items():

                result[smart_str(key, self.charset)] = OracleParam(param, self.charset)

            return result

        else:

        return tuple([OracleParam(p, self.charset, True) for p in params])

    def _guess_input_sizes(self, params_list):

        if isinstance(params_list[0], dict):

            sizes = {}

            iterators = [params.iteritems() for params in params_list]

        else:

        sizes = [None] * len(params_list[0])

            iterators = [enumerate(params) for params in params_list]

        for iterator in iterators:

            for key, value in iterator:

                if value.input_size: sizes[key] = value.input_size

        if isinstance(sizes, dict):

            self.setinputsizes(**sizes)

        else:

        for params in params_list:

            for i, value in enumerate(params):

                if value.input_size: sizes[i] = value.input_size

        self.setinputsizes(*sizes)

    def _param_generator(self, params):

        if isinstance(params, dict):

            return dict([(k, p.smart_str) for k, p in params.iteritems()])

        else:

        return [p.smart_str for p in params]

    def execute(self, query, params=None):