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Ask HN: Why is there no open-source pure Python database driver for Oracle DB?
- detaro 6y agoLots of work for little gain. The protocol isn't openly documented, Oracle will just tell you to use the libraries they provide if there's any problem, so nobody bothered.
- gjvc 6y agoThere could be more to be gained than you might think -- for example, I prefer using pg8000 to psycopg2 because the former is pure python and doesn't carry with it the dependency weight of compiling native code. However, I can see what you mean; just wondered if there had been any attempts at it I might have missed.