Connecting to Oracle Database using cx_Oracle module 7 for Python

In this post I will simply show how to connect to an Oracle database using Python 3 in an Oracle Linux 7.6 OS. One of the things that you have to do is to install Python in your OS. By default, Oracle Linux 7.6 comes with Python 7.6 but from 7.7 ownwards it comes with the version Python 3. If you wish to install the Python 3 in your system I do recommend you to take a look at one of my blog posts about this topic: “Installing Python 3…

Installing Python 3 on Oracle Linux 7.6

There are several ways to install python 3 on Oracle Linux 7 systems. You can either perform an installation using an EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository or the Software Collection Library (SCL) which requires that you perform other types of commands. However, on this post I am going to install from the the Oracle Linux 7 latest repository which is also another method besides the two previously mentioned. Also the OS will be an Oracle Linux 7.6 that comes installed by default, the version 2.7 of Python is…