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

Usually, all you need are the libraries, which don't necessarily require sudo rights. Extract them to a place the software will be able to read from and set the following environment variables accordingly:

ORACLE_HOME=path/to/where/you/extracted/libs
TNS_ADMIN=path/to/tnsnames.ora

I have had best luck skipping tnsnames, and just specifying the host, port, etc in the connection, but it's quite possible you'll need it for cx_oracle...I don't remember from when I used it ages ago.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

if you don't want use cx_Oracle you should use expect scripting. ( for python pexpect). But you need to be carefully for handle all expectations.