How to connect MS Access to Python using pyodbc

Question

I\'m having trouble connecting a database in access with pyodbc. I\'ve seen other example codes that appear near identical to mine that work:

import pyodbc 
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Answer 1

I am using Win10 and Office 365, my problem resolved with installing Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable

Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable

Answer 2

Since you are using the 32-bit versions of both Microsoft Office and Python you should be good to go once you have the right connection string. It should look like this:

connStr = (
    r"DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)};"
    r"DBQ=C:\full\path\to\your\PYODBC.accdb;"
    )
cnxn = pyodbc.connect(connStr)