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Masthead

The first link below is dead, and it's not clear to me what the intended target should be.

URL

http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/oracle9i/

FAQ

http://www.orafaq.com/

licence

commercial (free development versions available on http://technet.oracle.com/)

platforms

Unix, win32

DB API 2.0 Drivers

DCOracle2

URL

http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/dco2

licence

ZPL

platforms

Unix, win32

Python versions

Extensions to DB API

Comments

cx_Oracle

URL

http://www.computronix.com/utilities.shtml

licence

[http://www.computronix.com/download/License(cxOracle).txt BSD like]

platforms

Unix, win32

Python versions

2.2 - 2.4

Oracle versions

8i - 10g

Extensions to DB API

Comments

While trying to install the cx_Oracle Python utility, I encounter the following error:

sh-2.05b# python setup.py build

running build

running build_ext

building 'cx_Oracle' extension

gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/devtools/oracle/product/8.1.5/rdbms/demo -I/devtools/oracle/product/8.1.5/rdbms/public -I/devtools/oracle/product/8.1.5/network/public -I/usr/local/python2.4/include/python2.4 -c cx_Oracle.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/cx_Oracle.o -DBUILD_TIME="January 21, 2005 11:19:47"

cx_Oracle.c:10: xa.h: No such file or directory

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Where can I find the xa.h file? The only package I could find online that provides any such file is a cd i/o library, and that doesn’t seem right.

I am running a 2.4 linux kernel, trying to install cx_Oracle-4.0.1 on top of Python 2.4.

I have tried the beta package which should be more 2.4 compatible, but still no luck. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Other Drivers

driver name

URL

licence

platforms

Python versions

Programming Model

Comments

Supported Python Applications

• ["Zope"]
• an Oracle (DCOracle and DCOracle2) driver exists for ["PyDO"] (Python Data Objects)

Pros

Cons

• Requires bloated Oracle client installation on any machine that the app will run on