Python connection to Access Database using pypyodbc
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering pyodbc and pypyodbc 'Data source name not found' or driver errors with Access databases, since it shows step by step how to create the driver or DSN setup.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2017 to 2019.
What it is
A short screencast showing how to connect Python to a Microsoft Access database using the pypyodbc module. It walks through setting up the ODBC driver or data source and running a basic connection from Python on Windows. Presented by Rob Lutken.
What people said
Recommends Mwspencer · 2017-08 · Stack Overflow · on “pyodbc - ODBC Connection not working”
I was having similar issues, and the same error, not being able to connect to my driver. For anyone seeing this now, and still not able to connect to your driver, this youtube video gives a great step by step tutorial for creating your own drive path...https: [this video]
Recommends viveklande · 2019-08 · Stack Overflow · on “pyodbc + MySQL + Windows: Data source name not found and no default driver specified”
For the error mentioned "pyodbc.Error: ('IM002', '[IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified (0) (SQLDriverConnect)')" I installed the 'Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable 64-bit' as I have 64-bit system and then added the DSN in the directory of MS Access database and it's working now. Here is the link of the video for how to create DSN and connect to python. [this video]
Cites SGray2 · 2018-04 · Stack Overflow · on “Python connecting to Access Database using pypyodbc: No default driver specified”
I am trying to get data from a very simple Access file into a python code. I followed the directions in this video: [this video] My code is as follows: import pypyodbc con=pypyodbc.connect('DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver(*.mdb)};UID=admin;UserCommitSync=Yes;Threads=3;SafeTransactions=0;PageTimeout=5;MaxScanRows=8;MaxBufferSize=2048;{FIL=MS Access};DriverId=25;{DefaultDir=C:/Users/climate1/Documents/Test};DBQ=C:/Users/climate1/Documents/Test/dogs1.mdb;') cursor=con.cursor() cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM doggos") for row in cursor,fetchall(): print(row) but it doesn't seem to be able to find the correct driver and I am receiving this error: File "doggos.py", line 5, in con=pypyodbc.connect('DRIVER