Unable to import pyodbc

Question

I want to connect SQL server 2012/2014 from my windows machine using Python. For that I installed pyodbc module to my virtual environment using command below

pip install pyodbc

However, it gave me the message below when I run my script

import pyodbc ImportError: No module named pyodbc

Here is my code:

import pyodbc
db= pyodbc.connect(driver='{SQL Server Native Client 11.0}',
                   server='127.0.0.1', 
                   database='master',               
                   trusted_connection='yes')
db.close()

The module has already installed and it's listed when I use pip list. I have been searching around but with no luck on finding the solution on what exactly cause that issue.

Any helps will be appropriated.

Answer 1

I had this same problem after using conda to install pyodbc into a conda (virtual) environment and then trying to import into jupyter notebook.

At some point, I tried installing pyodbc into my base miniconda3 and finally the import in the conda env worked.

Edit : That was not much of a solution, though, and realized wasn't able to import any modules installed in the env.

Finally, problem was solved by following both option 1 and 2 on this page . Ie

1. activating the env, then in that env ...
2. conda install jupyter
3. conda install ipykernel
4. ipython kernel install --user --name=my_env

What did not seem to work: Doing Step 3 above, and then outside the env, c:\\users\\user\\miniconda3\\python -m ipykernel install --user --name=my_env

Answer 2

Try

pip install pyodbc‑4.0.24‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl

You can aquire it here : https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyodbc

Look in to the link and download it based on your CPU architecture : 32/64