How do I access an Oracle db without installing Oracle's client and cx_Oracle?

Question

I have two RHEL servers running Python 2.4 and 2.6 separately. There is an Oracle database on the other server I need to access.

I was trying to install cx_oracle on my

Answer 1

An excerpt from https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/184/oracle-database:

There's no pure python client for Oracle and likely never will be. Even wonderful third-party toolsets like SQLalchemy still rely on cx_Oracle underneath to do the actual communication to the Oracle database servers.

—also, deciding by Google, the answer is no: there do not seem to be any pure Python Oracle clients in existence as of today.