Python Database connection Close

Question

Using the code below leaves me with an open connection, how do I close?

import pyodbc
conn = pyodbc.connect(\'DRIVER=MySQL ODBC 5.1 driver;SERVER=localhost;D         


        

Answer 1

According to pyodbc documentation, connections to the SQL server are not closed by default. Some database drivers do not close connections when close() is called in order to save round-trips to the server.

To close your connection when you call close() you should set pooling to False:

import pyodbc

pyodbc.pooling = False