Re: [cx-oracle-users] cx_Oracle installation problem / python

[Amaury F. d'A. <ama...@gm...>]

2011/11/28 Humberto Ferreira da Luz Junior <hum...@gm...>

> Hi, I need to access an oracle database with python.
> In order to install cx_oracle I followed thoses steps:
> 1. I installed python-2.7.2.amd64.msi.
> 2. I installed cx_Oracle-5.1.1-10g.win-amd64-
> py2.7.msi
> 3. I opened the IDEL (Python GUI) to test cx_oracle:
> >>> import cx_Oracle
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
>     import cx_Oracle
> ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 não é um aplicativo Win32 válido. (%1 is
> not a valid Win32 app).
>
> I asked for help in the web2app google group but they said that this is
> probably an cx_oracle issue. Could somebody give me a tip to solve this
> problem?
>
> Obs. cx_Oracle.pyd is located in C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages.
>

It's certainly an incompatibility with the Oracle client found in the PATH.
Are you sure to use a 64bit version of the Oracle client?
If you downloaded the Instant Client, it's probably a 32bit version,
which can only work in a 32bit program

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc