difficulty connecting to networked oracle database

[Martin Franklin]

yahibble wrote:
> Now, I am no Python expert but I have dabbled and I have spent a
> couple of days with another engineer unsuccessfully installing oracle
> drivers for MS ODBC on the win XP machine.
> 
> It looked to me like ODBC was the best way to get a (free) python
> module to upload data to an oracle database table. Aside from
> installing oracle clients to ODBC being a pain, I would like to
> consider other ways to connect.
> 
> Has anyone had experiences with Python connecting to oracle from Win
> XP? I have searched the 'net for various modules and discussions but
> have no success thus far.
> 
> Thanks, Graeme.
> 
> 


not used it on Windows XP (just 2000) but cx_Oracle worked for me

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cx-oracle/

Martin