Best python module for Oracle, but portable to other RDBMSes

[Gerhard Häring]

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dananrg at yahoo.com wrote:
> What would be the next best Oracle database module for Python next to
> cx_oracle? 

That would probably be DCOracle2.

> I'd like to compare two and choose one, just for the sake of
> seeing how two modules doing the same thing operate.
> 
> Also, does installing cx_oracle create registry entries or require
> admin privs on a Windows XP machine? I see that cx_oracle is
> distributed as an EXE.

It's most probably created using distutils and "python setup.py
bdist_wininst". These installers only use the registry to look up the
path Python where is installed. Of course it will need a correctly
working Oracle client to operate.

- -- Gerhard
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