cx_Oracle: ImportError: DLL load failed: This application has failed

Question

Here\'s what I did:

1. I\'m on Windows XP SP3
2. I already had Python 2.7.1 installed.
3. I downloaded instantclient-basic-nt-11.2.0.3.0.zip

Answer 1

I had same issue with DLL load failed on my Windows machine. installed oracle client, set variables, ran cx_Oracle-5.1.3-11g.win32-py2.7.exe file.

however when I installed cx_Oracle with easy_setup it fixed the problem.

C:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install.exe cx_Oracle-5.1.3-11g.win32-py2.7.exe