Connect to MS Access in Python

Question

I tried a lot of examples from internet to include a MS Access connection to my python project without sucess

I have my python project in Eclipse with Anaconda, and my c

Answer 1

You probably have 32-bit Access (Office) and 64-bit Python. As you know, 32-bit and 64-bit are completely incompatible. You need to install 32-bit Python, or upgrade Access (Office) to 64-bit, and then it will work. Succinctly put, you cannot connect (at application level) a 64-bit Python.exe to a 32-bit MS Access ODBC driver (odbcad32.exe) since data is stored and processed differently between the types. However with backwards compatibility, it is advised to work in lowest common denominator as a 64-bit OS can run 32-bit applications and same level programs can "talk" to each other. Please take a look at the URL below for all details.

https://datatofish.com/how-to-connect-python-to-ms-access-database-using-pyodbc/

Answer 2

In both cases, the error message says it cannot find the driver (ODBC) or the provider (ADO).

In ODBC, are you sure that this driver is installed?

You can have a list of available drivers using pyodbc.drivers()

for example, in my case, I read MS Access data using this driver Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)