Can't open lib 'ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server'? Sym linking issue?

Question

When I try to connect to a sql server database with pyodbc (on mac):

import pyodbc

server = \'####\'
database = \'####\'
username = \'####@####\'
password =         


        

Answer 1

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/prod.list > 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list 
apt-get update
ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt-get install msodbcsql17
apt-get -y install unixodbc-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-pip -y
pip3 install --upgrade pyodbc

Use above steps to istall the odbc driver correctly and everything will fall in place.