Is Python the new R? Maybe, maybe not, but that I'm finding in recent months is more companies are asking me to use Python instead of R for some of my work. In this blog post I will walk through the steps of setting up the Oracle driver for Python, called cx_Oracle . The documentation for this drive is good and detailed with plenty of examples available on GitHub . Hopefully there isn't anything new in this post, but it is my experiences and what I did. 1. Install Oracle Client The Python driver requires Oracle Client software to be installed. Go here, download and install. It's a straightforward install. Make sure the directories are added to the search path. 2. Download and install cx_Oracle You can use pip3 to do this. pip3 install cx_Oracle Collecting cx_Oracle Downloading cx_Oracle-6.1.tar.gz (232kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 235kB 679kB/s Building wheels for collected packages: cx-Oracle Running setup.py bdist_wheel for cx-Oracle ... done Stored in directory: /Users/brendan.tierney/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/0d/c4/b5/5a4d976432f3b045c3f019cbf6b5ba202b1cc4a36406c6c453 Successfully built cx-Oracle Installing collected packages: cx-Oracle Successfully installed cx-Oracle-6.1 3. Create a connection in Python Now we can create a connection. When you see some text enclosed in angled brackets <>, you will need to enter your detailed for your schema and database server. # import the Oracle Python library import cx_Oracle # define the login details p_username = "" p_password = "" p_host = "" p_service = "" p_port = "1521" # create the connection con = cx_Oracle.connect(user=p_username, password=p_password, dsn=p_host+"/"+p_service+":"+p_port) # an alternative way to create the connection # con = cx_Oracle.connect('/@/:1521') # print some details about the connection and the library print("Database version:", con.version) print("Oracle Python version:", cx_Oracle.version) Database version: 12.1.0.1.0 Oracle Python version: 6.1 4. Query some data and return results to Python In this example the query returns the list of tables in the schema. # define a cursor to use with the connection cur = con.cursor() # execute a query returning the results to the cursor cur.execute('select table_name from user_tables') # for each row returned to the cursor, print the record for row in cur: print("Table: ", row) Table: ('DECISION_TREE_MODEL_SETTINGS',) Table: ('INSUR_CUST_LTV_SAMPLE',) Table: ('ODMR_CARS_DATA',) Now list the Views available in the schema. # define a second cursor cur2 = con.cursor() # return the list of Views in the schema to the cursor cur2.execute('select view_name from user_views') # display the list of Views for result_name in cur2: print("View: ", result_name) View: ('MINING_DATA_APPLY_V',) View: ('MINING_DATA_BUILD_V',) View: ('MINING_DATA_TEST_V',) View: ('MINING_DATA_TEXT_APPLY_V',) View: ('MINING_DATA_TEXT_BUILD_V',) View: ('MINING_DATA_TEXT_TEST_V',) 5. Query some data and return to a Panda in Python Pandas are commonly used for storing, structuring and processing data in Python, using a data frame format. The following returns the results from a query and stores the results in a panda. # in this example the results of a query are loaded into a Panda # load the pandas library import pandas as pd # execute the query and return results into the panda called df df = pd.read_sql_query("SELECT * from INSUR_CUST_LTV_SAMPLE", con) # print the records returned by query and stored in panda print(df.head()) CUSTOMER_ID LAST FIRST STATE REGION SEX PROFESSION \ 0 CU13388 LEIF ARNOLD MI Midwest M PROF-2 1 CU13386 ALVA VERNON OK Midwest M PROF-18 2 CU6607 HECTOR SUMMERS MI Midwest M Veterinarian 3 CU7331 PATRICK GARRETT CA West M PROF-46 4 CU2624 CAITLYN LOVE NY NorthEast F Clerical BUY_INSURANCE AGE HAS_CHILDREN ... MONTHLY_CHECKS_WRITTEN \ 0 No 70 0 ... 0 1 No 24 0 ... 9 2 No 30 1 ... 2 3 No 43 0 ... 4 4 No 27 1 ... 4 MORTGAGE_AMOUNT N_TRANS_ATM N_MORTGAGES N_TRANS_TELLER \ 0 0 3 0 0 1 3000 4 1 1 2 980 4 1 3 3 0 2 0 1 4 5000 4 1 2 CREDIT_CARD_LIMITS N_TRANS_KIOSK N_TRANS_WEB_BANK LTV LTV_BIN 0 2500 1 0 17621.00 MEDIUM 1 2500 1 450 22183.00 HIGH 2 500 1 250 18805.25 MEDIUM 3 800 1 0 22574.75 HIGH 4 3000 2 1500 17217.25 MEDIUM [5 rows x 31 columns] 6. Wrapping it up and closing things Finally we need to wrap thing up and close our cursors and our connection to the database. # close the cursors cur2.close() cur.close() # close the connection to the database con.close() Useful links cx_Oracle website cx_Oracle documentation cx_Oracle examples on GitHub Watch out for more blog posts on using Python with Oracle, Oracle Data Mining and Oracle R Enterprise.
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