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Asked: 2026-06-07T09:34:05+00:00

I am trying to query ODBC compliant databases using pyodbc in ubuntu . For

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I am trying to query ODBC compliant databases using pyodbc in ubuntu. For that, i have installed the driver (say mysql-odbc-driver). After installation the odbcinst.ini file with the configurations gets created in the location /usr/share/libmyodbc/odbcinst.ini
When i try to connect to the database using my pyodbc connection code, i get a driver not found error message.
Now when I copy the contents of the file to /etc/odbcinst.ini, it works!

This means pyodbc searches for the driver information in file /etc/odbcinst.ini.

How can I change the location where it searches the odbcinst.ini file for the driver information

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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming you are using unixODBC here was some possibilities:

    • rebuild unixODBC from scratch and set –sysconfdir
    • export ODBCSYSINI env var pointing to a directory and unixODBC will look here for odbcinst.ini and odbc.ini system dsns
    • export ODBCINSTINI and point it at your odbcinst.ini file

    BTW, I doubt pyodbc looks anything up in the odbcinst.ini file but unixODBC will. There is a list of ODBC Driver manager APIs which can be used to examine ODBC ini files.

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