Thanks all for your advice. Python is a really useful (down and dirty) language but is of course, still evolving.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Andy Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:07 AM To: Stephen Day Cc: Guice, Mike (Liberty); db-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [DB-SIG] Oracle API Stephen Day wrote: > No need the have the Oracle client. There are a few > modules that should work listed here (not all > Oracle!): > > http://www.python.org/topics/database/modules.html > > I've used cx_Oracle with success. > > Stephen Day > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Is it necessary to have the Oracle Client installed >>in a machine that wishes to connect to an Oracle >>database? If not, what are the requisite files for >>making the connection? >> >>Thanks >> >>Mike Guice >>Oracle DBA >>IBM USA >> 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. Regards, Andy -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the desk of Andrew J Todd esq - http://www.halfcooked.com/ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
