Python Oracle Interace on Solaris

[Gerhard Häring]

kenneth.s.chan at gmail.com wrote:
> I am trying to use Python to do queries on a Oracle database using a
> Solaris box. I have seen tools such as cx_Oracle which would be good
> except that my Solaris box does not have an Oracle installation. Do I
> need to have an Oracle installation on my Solaris box to access the
> Oracle database (which is on another machine)? Are there ways to access
> an Oracle database and do queries without having a local copy of Oracle
> installed? Thanks.

There is, but only using Jython, Java and using Oracle's "thin" 
pure-Java JDBC client library.

-- Gerhard