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Install and Test cx_Oracle in Python

To communicate with Oracle Database using Python, the cx_Oracle driver is required to translate Python calls into database-specific calls. The installation of cx_Oracle can be done via the command prompt using 'pip install cx_Oracle'. After installation, you can verify it by checking the available modules in the Python console.

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Install and Test cx_Oracle in Python

To communicate with Oracle Database using Python, the cx_Oracle driver is required to translate Python calls into database-specific calls. The installation of cx_Oracle can be done via the command prompt using 'pip install cx_Oracle'. After installation, you can verify it by checking the available modules in the Python console.

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These methods won't be changed from database to database and same for all databases.

Working with Oracle Database:


From Python Program if we want to communicate with any database,some translator must be
required to translate Python calls into Database specific calls and Database specific calls into
Python [Link] translator is nothing but Driver/Connector.

Diagram

For Oracle database the name of driver needed is cx_Oracle.


cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that enables access to Oracle [Link] can be used for
both Python2 and Python3. It can work with any version of Oracle database like 9,10,11 and 12.

Installing cx_Oracle:
From Normal Command Prompt (But not from Python console)execute the following command

D:\python_classes>pip install cx_Oracle

Collecting cx_Oracle
Downloading cx_Oracle-[Link] (100kB)
100% |-----------| 102kB 256kB/s
Installing collected packages: cx-Oracle
Successfully installed cx-Oracle-6.0.2

How to Test Installation:


From python console execute the following command:

>>> help("modules")

In the output we can see cx_Oracle

....
_multiprocessing crypt ntpath timeit
_opcode csv nturl2path tkinter
_operator csvr numbers token
_osx_support csvw opcode tokenize
_overlapped ctypes operator trace
_pickle curses optparse traceback
_pydecimal custexcept os tracemalloc
_pyio cx_Oracle parser try
_random data pathlib tty
_sha1 datetime pdb turtle

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