title: cx_Oracle not recognized by python
body: <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Exact solution is in the comments below the marked answer.</p>
  
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  <p>In an enterprise redhat linux environment, Python cannot seem to find the cx_Oracle package needed to connect to the database. See the logs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[user@redhat ~]$ echo $PYTHONPATH
  ~/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages
  [user@redhat ~]$ cd $PYTHONPATH
  [user@redhat site-packages]$ ls -l
  total 1912
  drwxrwxr-x  2 user user     131 Apr 20 12:00 cx_Oracle-6.2.1.dist-info
  -rwxrwxr-x  1 user user 1900997 Apr 20 12:00 cx_Oracle.cpython-34m.so
  -rw-rw-r--  1 user user     290 Apr 20 12:00 easy-install.pth
  drwxrwxr-x  4 user user     114 Apr 20 12:00 et_xmlfile
  drwxrwxr-x  2 user user     117 Apr 20 12:00 et_xmlfile-1.0.1-py3.4.egg-info
  drwxrwxr-x  2 user user     150 Apr 20 12:00 jdcal-1.4.dist-info
  -rw-rw-r--  1 user user   12553 Apr 20 12:00 jdcal.py
  -rw-rw-r--  1 user user   13386 Apr 20 12:00 jdcal.pyc
  drwxrwxr-x 21 user user    4096 Apr 20 12:00 openpyxl
  drwxrwxr-x  2 user user     154 Apr 20 12:00 openpyxl-2.5.3-py3.4.egg-info
  drwxrwxr-x  2 user user      61 Apr 23 12:00 __pycache__
  -rw-rw-r--  1 user user    2389 Apr 23 12:00 site.py
  -rw-rw-r--  1 user user    1743 Apr 23 12:00 site.pyc
  [user@redhat site-packages]$ python
  Python 2.7.5 (default, May  3 2017, 07:55:04)
  [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-14)] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  &gt;&gt;&gt; import cx_Oracle
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  ImportError: No module named cx_Oracle
  &gt;&gt;&gt; import openpyxl
  openpyxl/xml/__init__.py:15: UserWarning: The installed version of lxml is too old to be used with openpyxl
    warnings.warn("The installed version of lxml is too old to be used with openpyxl")
  &gt;&gt;&gt; exit()
  [user@redhat site-packages]$
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please note that both cx_Oracle and openpyxl were both installed using pip in a single command: <code>pip install --user cx_Oracle openpyxl</code> They are both in the same location and pulled into python in the same manner, yet openpyxl is seen and cx_Oracle is not. What am I doing wrong here?</p>