cx_Oracle 6.1 cp36 manylinux wheel not supported on Amazon Linux?

[ddallen16]

Is cx_Orace 6.1 cp36 supported for pip installation on Amazon Linux? Trying to pip install the wheel file generates a not supported error.

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1. What is your version of Python? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

Python 3.6.2 (default, Nov 2 2017, 19:34:31)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)] on linux

2. What is your version of cx_Oracle?
   attempting to install cx_Oracle-6.1-cp36-36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl

3. What is your version of the Oracle client (e.g. Instant Client)? How was it
   installed? Where is it installed?

11.2g

4. What is your version of the Oracle Database?
   11.2g

5. What is your OS and version?
   Amazon Linux (2017-09 AMI) Linux 4.9.62-21.56.amzn1.x86_64

6. What compiler version did you use? For example, with GCC, run
   gcc --version.
   NA

7. What environment variables did you set? How exactly did you set them?
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8. What exact command caused the problem (e.g. what command did you try to
   install with)? Who were you logged in as?

pip install cx_Oracle-6.1-cp36-36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl

9. What error(s) you are seeing?

cx_Oracle-6.1-cp36-36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

[anthony-tuininga]

Can you show the output from sys.maxsize? Are you sure you are running 64-bit Python?

[ddallen16]

Is this what you were looking for? The output is 2**63-1, which per the Python docs indicates a 64 bit platform / implementation.

Python 3.6.2 (default, Nov 2 2017, 19:34:31)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import sys
sys.maxsize
9223372036854775807

[ddallen16]

And for what it's worth, this is the python 3.6 "yum install"'d from the Amazon Linux AMI repository.

[anthony-tuininga]

Yes, that is what I was looking for. I'm not sure why it is claiming that it is not a supported wheel. Can you build from source instead?

[ddallen16]

I'll give it a try... was hoping to avoid that ....

[anthony-tuininga]

You can try this: pypa/pip#3969

[anthony-tuininga]

Did my suggestion help? The documentation suggests that this may not be a "solvable" problem and that a hack like the one I suggested is necessary -- or you would need to build from source.

[anthony-tuininga]

Closing due to lack of activity. Please feel free to re-open if needed!