Andy Todd wrote: > [...] The Python db-api modules (such as cx_Oracle and DCOracle2) still > require you to have the Oracle client software installed. > > Oracle do ship a class (III or is it IV?) pure Java JDBC driver which > you can use from Jython. > > The only other way I'm aware of that you can connect to an Oracle > database is via ODBC. mxODBC is the cream of the Python crop here.
The Oracle ODBC driver (be it from Microsoft or from Oracle) both need an Oracle client installation, too. I've also once seen a third-party offering a commercial Oracle client library with small footprint that does *not* depend on any client stuff from Oracle corp. IIRC they had C and/or C++ bindings. But I don't know the exact Google triggers for finding it ... -- Gerhard _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
