Pyodbc - “Data source name not found, and no default driver specified”

Question

I have trouble getting pyodbc work. I have unixodbc , unixodbc-dev, odbc-postgresql, pyodbc packages install

Answer 1

For me, the issue was the actual location of my odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini files.

On many systems, the install location of these files is in /etc/

However, in my case, these files were located under /usr/local/etc/

The could be determined by typing
odbcinst -j

Which yielded:

unixODBC 2.3.0
DRIVERS............: /usr/local/etc/odbcinst.ini
SYSTEM DATA SOURCES: /usr/local/etc/odbc.ini
FILE DATA SOURCES..: /usr/local/etc/ODBCDataSources
USER DATA SOURCES..: /usr/local/etc/odbc.ini
SQLULEN Size.......: 8
SQLLEN Size........: 8
SQLSETPOSIROW Size.: 8

My odbc.ini files already exists in /etc, so the solution was to copy them over over from /etc/ to /usr/local/etc/

cp /etc/odbc.ini /etc/odbcinst.ini /usr/local/etc/

Edit: It's also worth noting that the path outputted by the odbcinst -j command can change depending on using sudo or not.