Welcome to cx_Oracle’s documentation!

Note

cx_Oracle has a major new release under a new name and homepage python-oracledb.

New projects should install python-oracledb instead of cx_Oracle.

cx_Oracle is a module that enables access to Oracle Database and conforms to the Python database API specification. This module is currently tested against Oracle Client 21c, 19c, 18c, 12c, and 11.2, and Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10. Older versions of cx_Oracle may be used with previous Python releases.

cx_Oracle is distributed under an open-source license (the BSD license). A detailed description of cx_Oracle changes can be found in the release notes.

Contents:

User Guide

API Manual

Indices and tables