Trying to import pypyodbc module gives error 'ODBC Library is not found. Is LD_LIBRARY_PATH set?'

Question

I am running Python 3.5 on my Linux Mint 18. I want to load the pypyodbc module. However, no matter what I try, I always get the error:

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Answer 1

Installing the python-pyodb package solved it:

sudo apt-get install python-pyodbc

Now the import succeeds:

In [2]: import pypyodbc

In [3]: