create or replace function test_query_func(dept varchar2)
return clob
is
 type test_record is record
 (rec_empno emp.empno%type,
 rec_ename emp.ename%type,
 rec_job emp.job%type,
 rec_sal emp.sal%type);
 type test_query_arr is table of test_record index by binary_integer;
 cursor cur is select empno, ename, job, sal from emp where deptno = dept;
 test_query test_query_arr;
 i integer := 0;
 ss varchar2(200) := '';
 res clob := '[';
begin
 for c in cur loop
 i := i + 1;
 test_query(i) := c;
 end loop;
 for q in 1..test_query.count loop
 ss := '(''' || test_query(q).rec_empno || ''', ''' || test_query(q).rec_ename || ''', ''' || test_query(q).rec_job || ''', ''' || test_query(q).rec_sal || ''')';
 if q < test_query.count then
 ss := ss || ',';
 end if;
 res := res || ss;
 end loop;
 res := res || ']';
 return res;
end;

可以在pl/sql developer测试这个函数的返回值：

 begin
 dbms_output.put_line(test_query_func('30'));
 end; 

输出结果：
[('7499', 'ALLEN', 'SALESMAN', '1600'),('7521', 'WARD', 'SALESMAN', '1250'),('7654', 'MARTIN', 'SALESMAN', '1250'),('7698', 'BLAKE', 'MANAGER', '2850'),('7844', 'TURNER', 'SALESMAN', '1500'),('7900', 'JAMES', 'CLERK', '950')]
其实已经定义成一个python中列表中包含元组子元素的样式。
下面是python中的代码，用python连接oracle需要cx_Oracle库：

import cx_Oracle as ora;
con = ora.connect('scott/scott@oradb');
cur = con.cursor();
cur.execute('select test_query_func(30) from dual');
res = cur.fetchall()[0][0].read();
cur.close();
con.close();
data = eval(res);
import pandas as pd;
df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns = ['empno', 'ename', 'job', 'sal']);
print(df)

这样oracle中函数返回的长字符串值就转化为DataFrame对象了：