python-oracledb 1.1 for Oracle DB supports Azure OAuth 2.0 Tokens

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python-oracledb 1.1, the extremely popular Oracle Database interface for Python, is now Production on PyPI.

python-oracledb is an open source package for the Python Database API specification with many additions to support advanced Oracle Database features.

Main Changes

• Support for Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 and Oracle Cloud
  Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (IAM) token authentication to Oracle Autonomous Database.
• Advanced Queueing improvements, including support for JSON payloads.
• Thick mode (which uses Oracle Client libraries) can now be used on systems where Python’s cryptography package isn’t available for Thin mode connectivity. See Installing python-oracledb without the Cryptography Package.

See the Release Notes for more improvements and bug fixes.

Installing or Upgrading python-oracledb

You can install or upgrade python-oracledb by running:

python -m pip install oracledb --upgrade

The pip options --proxy and --user may be useful in some environments. See python-oracledb Installation for details.

python-oracledb References

• Home page: oracle.github.io/python-oracledb/index.html
• Installation instructions: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html
• Documentation: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
• Release Notes: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes.html
• Discussions: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb/discussions
• Issues: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb/issues
• Source Code Repository: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb

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