pyodbc + MySQL + Windows: Data source name not found and no default driver specified

Question

I am trying to connect to MySQL 5.6 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 localhost with pyodbc. I used the full installation for the MySQL instance on the localhost, including the OD

Answer 1

In Win64 there are two ODBC environments: 32 and 64 bit and you can work with Python 32 bit or Python 64 bit. Check what version of Python you use and then use proper version of odbcad32.exe (32 bit version is located in the SysWoW64 directory) to create SystemDSN. With SystemDSN you can check if you can connect to the database. Then try to connect to DB from Python code.

You can list ODBC datasources available to pyodbc via my code recipe: https://code.activestate.com/recipes/578815-printing-list-of-odbc-data-sources-with-pyodbc-mod/