[cx-oracle-users] Hello cx_oracle users - having a real challenge getting cx_oracle working on intel mac

[Seth F. <se...@be...>]

I've been looking around finding different sets of instructions for getting
cx_Oracle installed on my Mac.  I am hoping I don't need to do something
drastic like change OS or python versions, but I'm running out of things to
try.

My environment is OS 10.5.8.   Python 2.6.2.    I've tried different
variants of the oracle clients, 10, 11, instant client basic+sdk+sqlplus
(and sqlplus is working).

Does anyone have any insight into what might be wrong?

seths-macbook-pro:appschecker seth$ python -c 'import cx_Oracle'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/cx_Oracle.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/cx_Oracle.py", line 6, in
__bootstrap__
ImportError:
dlopen(/Users/seth/.python-eggs/cx_Oracle-5.0.3-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg-tmp/cx_Oracle.so,
2): Symbol not found: _OCIAttrGet
  Referenced from:
/Users/seth/.python-eggs/cx_Oracle-5.0.3-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg-tmp/cx_Oracle.so
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

A hopeful thanks in advance,
~seth