You can download Oracle Instant client with minimal set of required libraries needed for either cx_Oracle od DCOracle2 to work. You can download them directly from the Oracle web site. They have the rpms ready...
Miro On 5/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Miroslav Siket CERN, IT/FIO, CH-1211, Suisse e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://cern.ch/mirsi phone: +41 22 76 73068 fax: +41 22 76 77155 _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
