install cx_oracle for python

Question

Am on Debian 5, I\'ve been trying to install cx_oracle module for python without any success. First, I installed oracle-xe-client and its dependency (followed tutorial in the fo

Answer 1

The following worked for me, both on mac and Linux. This one command should download needed additional files, without need need to set environment variables.

python -m pip install cx_Oracle --pre

Note, the --pre option is for development and pre-release of the Oracle driver. As of this posting, it was grabbing cx_Oracle-6.0rc1.tar.gz, which was needed. (I'm using python 3.6)