title: Can't get Python 3.2.5 and cx_Oracle to work
body: <p>I need to connect to Oracle database using python. So, I did the following:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>I downloaded instantclient_11_2 basic and sdk from Oracle site.</li>
  <li>Put the files on /opt/ora/instantclient    </li>
  <li>export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/ora/instantclient    </li>
  <li>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME    </li>
  <li>cd $ORACLE_HOME &amp;&amp; ln -s libclntsh.so.11.1 libclntsh.so</li>
  <li>Downloaded and installed cx_Oracle-5.1.1-11g-py32-1.x86_64.rpm </li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>But when I tried to run <code>import cx_Oracle</code> I got this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ImportError: No module named cx_Oracle
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>According to <a href="http://cx-oracle.sourceforge.net/README.txt" rel="nofollow">cx_Oracle site</a> I need to Place the file cx_Oracle.pyd or cx_Oracle.so anywhere on your Python path. But I can't find those files after installing cx_Oracle-5.1.1-11g-py32-1.x86_64.rpm..</p>
  
  <p>By the way, I also tried to install using zipped version but I got a lot error upon building like <code>error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1</code></p>
  
  <p>Is there anything I did wrong?</p>
  
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  <p>Got it solved guys. I upgraded my python to latest, used cx_Oracle for python33, and instantclient11.2..</p>