Anthony Tuininga is announcing that cx_Oracle with version number 5.2 is already available to download.

What is cx_Oracle ?

cx_Oracle is This is a Python interface to the Oracle database . The module is conforming to the Python DB API 2.0 specification.This module is currently built against Oracle 9.2, 10.2, 11.1 and 11.2.It works only on Python 2.x. This is changelog for cx_Oracle version 5.2 :

• Added support for LONG_UNICODE which is a type used to handle long Unicode strings.
• Set the row number in a cursor when executing PL/SQL blocks.
• Added support for setting the module, action and client_info attributes during connection so that logon triggers will see the supplied values.

You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: pypi.python.org