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@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ oracle.com in order to successfully compile. Note, however, that if using RPMs
you do not need to do anything as cx_Oracle will compile out of the box without
any changes to the configuration of the machine.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index.html
Each compressed tarball needs to be extracted to the exact same location.
Uncompress and untar each file from the same location in order to achieve this
@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ of libclntsh.so.
Continue to step: Building and Compilation.
OS X Build Hints
----------------
macOS Build Hints
-----------------
(Tested on Leopard 10.5.x)
The procedures for OS X are almost idential to Linux except for the package
names and a few environmental caveats. For OS X it is necessary to download
@ -86,10 +86,7 @@ Continue to step: Building and Compilation.
Building and Compilation
------------------------
Use the provided setup.py to build and install the module which makes use of
the distutils module. Note that on Windows, I have used mingw32
(http://www.mingw.org) and the module will not build with MSVC without
modification. The commands required to build and install the module are as
follows:
the distutils module.
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
@ -103,8 +100,8 @@ cx_Oracle there should be a line containing only '>>>' which indicates the
library successfully loaded.
$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 25 2008, 19:37:28)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)] on linux2
Python 3.6.0 (default, Jan 4 2017, 09:50:35)
[GCC 6.3.1 20161221 (Red Hat 6.3.1-1)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import cx_Oracle
>>>

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@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
Open Source Python/Oracle Utility - cx_Oracle
---------------------------------------------
cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and
conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a number of
additions. The time data type is not supported by Oracle and is therefore not
@ -29,8 +30,8 @@ Place the file cx_Oracle.pyd or cx_Oracle.so anywhere on your Python path.
Source Install
--------------
This module has been built with Oracle 10g, 11g and 12c on Linux and Windows.
Others have reported success with other platforms such as Mac OS X.
This module has been built with Oracle 11g and 12c on Linux, Windows and macOS.
Others have reported success with other platforms.
For simplified installation use pip
@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ See BUILD.txt for additional information.
Usage Example
-------------
from __future__ import print_function
import cx_Oracle
# connect via SQL*Net string or by each segment in a separate argument
@ -63,7 +66,7 @@ cursor.execute("""
arg_2 = 5,
arg_3 = 15)
for column_1, column_2, column_3 in cursor:
print "Values:", column_1, column_2, column_3
print("Values:", column_1, column_2, column_3)
For more examples, please see the test suite in the test directory and the
@ -73,5 +76,5 @@ cx_PyOracleLib (http://cx-pyoraclelib.sourceforge.net) projects.
For further information see
http://cx_oracle.readthedocs.org
http://cx-oracle.readthedocs.io