Python-oracledb 2.4 has been released – Christopher Jones
Python-oracledb 2.4, the extremely popular Oracle Database interface for Python, is now on PyPI.
Python-oracledb is an open source package for the Python Database API specification with many additions to support advanced Oracle Database features. By default, it is a ‘Thin’ driver that is immediately usable without needing any additional install e.g. no Instant Client is required. Python-oracledb is the new name for the cx_Oracle driver.
To get started quickly, use samples/sample_container to create a container image containing Oracle Database and python-oracledb.
Top Features in python-oracledb 2.4
Support for Oracle Database 23ai Pipelining. This is a great feature. For details, see my companion blog post Pipelined database operations with python-oracledb 2.4.A refactored connection string parser to improve support for various connection string syntaxes.Added packages for Python 3.13 and dropped support for Python 3.7.
Other enhancements and bug fixes also landed. Check out the release notes for details.
Installing or Upgrading python-oracledb
You can install or upgrade python-oracledb by running:
python -m pip install oracledb –upgrade
The pip options –proxy and –user may be useful in some environments. See python-oracledb Installation for details.
Python-oracledb References
Home page: oracle.github.io/python-oracledb/index.html
Installation instructions: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html
Documentation: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Release Notes: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes.html
Discussions: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb/discussions
Issues: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb/issues
Source Code Repository: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb
