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getting python pyobcd installed

I'm a little lost on how to get pyodbc installed in my computer.
I have python 3.6.1
The link
http://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000011656
pointed me to another link
https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc
Which is vague.
I'm used to downloading and running an exe for install.
This link is unclear and says all I have to do is:
"pip install pyodbc"
What exactly do I need to do to get this working?

Since you have not mentioned which OS you are using,
I will assume that you are on windows (as you have mentioned that you are used to install using .exe).
Firstly you need to know what a pip is:
pip is basically a package manager for python packages used to install 3 rd party packages which do not bundle along with the python distribution.
On linux pip comes pre installed also if you are using python version 3.4 onwards or python 2.7.9 you will be having pip pre installed on your system.
All you have to do it to open the command prompt issue the command
pip install package-name(pyobdc here)
it will do the job.
If you do not find pip in your distribution you can refer this link
How do I install pip on Windows?

open cmd in your computer and type
pip install pyobdc

Hello there and welcome to python programming. Basically python comes with its package installer so either you can go to any interpreter that you are using and type pip install pyobdc or use the command prompt in windows and type in pip install pyobdc. This would install your module and just remember to put import pyobdc at the top of the code if you want to use this package. Further information can be found on here

pip install wheel on windows when multiple python versions

I am running python3 on windows, and have 2 python3 versions installed (3.4 and 3.5). This is necessary from some reasons. Python 3.4 seems to be the default one and is located in c:/python34/... while 3.5 is located in c:/Users/u/AppData/...
When trying to do:
pip install C:\Users\YOANN\Downloads\numpy-1.12.0+mkl-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
or
pip3 install C:\Users\YOANN\Downloads\numpy-1.12.0+mkl-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
I receive the error:
numpy-1.12.0+mkl-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.
I'm pretty sure it's because it is trying to install it on the 3.4 version instead of 3.5 hence the version mismatch, but I can't find a workaround...
Any idea?

Just run it with the full path to pip and it should work.
c:\Users\u\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-64\Scripts\pip.exe install C:\Users\YOANN\Downloads\numpy-1.12.0+mkl-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
Check the first part, the c:\Users\u should be where you have installed your python3.5
I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but Virtual Environments may be your best friend.

Does the python.org installer of python come with pip, and how do I use it?

I can download python 2.7.12 from python.org, and all python versions from 2.7.9 onwards are supposed to come with pip, but after installing it, using pip in the terminal does not work.
I am on macOS.
Have I installed pip, and if I have, how do I use it?

Here you have informations about pip:
https://packaging.python.org/installing/
normally python from python.org come with pip, maybe you should just update...
to update from terminal:
pip install -U pip setuptools
After when you need to install package, for example numpy, just do in a terminal:
pip install numpy
more informations here :
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/
you can also use conda install from anaconda as an alternative of pip :
http://conda.pydata.org/docs/get-started.html

Multiple instances of Python can coexist on your machine. Thus you could have installed Python 2.7.12 yet, when you call Python from terminal, you may be calling an older version.
To know which version you are using, type which python in terminal and look at its path. Then from Python in terminal, type
import sys
print(sys.version)
to get the exact version.
As Dadep says, I would recommend using conda to isolate your invironments if you have to play with multiple Python interpreters. Further conda simplifies 3rd party package installation process beyond doubt.

Python 2.7.11 pip not installed

I have Python 2.7.11 installed on my machine which to my understanding should come with pip, however when I check the C:\Python27\Tools\Scripts\ directory there is no pip.exe present.
I have tried completely removing and reinstalling Python 2.7.11 without success. Running the installer pip is set to be installed, but after the install pip is nowhere to be found.
I also have Python 3.4 installed which has pip as expected. Any thoughts?

I encountered the same problem - pip not installed - with python-2.7.16, Win10, installing for 'all users'. It was resolved when I allowed the MSI installer to target the default location (C:\Python27) rather than changing it to under Program Files (x86). I've no clue why this changed anything.

python2.7.11 should install pip into c:\python27\scripts, you can take a look here

I used https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/ to make it install. Odd that an outside body has to make a tool to get pip to install. There is no mention of pip.pypa.io on the Python web site.
Although I got error messages, it did install, so check carefully.
You also may see a message suggesting that you upgrade to pip 9.0 with the command 'pip install --upgrade.' I highly recommend that.
Also, make sure you are in the directory where pip.exe is located when you run the commands. They don't tell you that, because they assume you know that, but we're not all geeks.

For people who are running into this issue, I have a Windows 10 x86 dev box that I use for exploit development, Python 2.7 was installed due to Immunity Debugger, this install did not include the new SSL package and did not include "pip".
There was no "C:\Python27\Scripts" folder which included pip. I did have a "C:\Python27\Tools\Scripts" folder which did not have pip installed.
I tired to install pip as suggested but did not work. Best way is to uninstall Python and install newest version, currently mine is 2.7.15 which came with pip as an option. This is what solved my issue, any older version of Python will need upgraded to support the SSL packages. You will receive the same errors when you try to install pip on an older version.
If you have reinstalled Python which included the SSL package and it still does not have pip, trying installing pip this way:
1. curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
2. python get-pip.py
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
This should work if you have a newer version of Python.
Once you have installed pip or newer version of python, go to "C:\Python27\Scripts" and you should see pip.exe.

I have installed "python-2.7.16" in my windows 10 PC. PIP is installed under "C:\Python27\Scripts". One can add the "C:\Python27\Scripts" path to environment variable and then access pip command from command prompt.
To add the path in environment variable:
Control Panel\System and Security\System --> Advanced System Settings --> Advanced --> enviroment variables --> under system variable --> Path(variable name)

Had the issue where no matter which version of python 2.7 I installed on windows 10 there was no pip.exe generated in the "Scripts" folder.
I solved it by ensuring that that MSI Installer file had Admin privileges before installing

if pip is not installed you can use easy_install.exe to install pip and other modules
you can find easy install in
python -m easy_install pip

I had the same issue:
Installed Python 27
Tried to use pip, but failed with unrecognized command error
Checked installation: no "C:\Python27\Scripts", only "C:\Python27\Tools\Scripts"
This issue happens only on some versions of Windows.
HOW TO FIX IT:
Uninstall Python 27
Reinstall Python 27, but unselect "pip" feature
Check installation: no "C:\Python27\Scripts" as expected
Start the installer again and use "Change Python"
Set "pip" and "Add Python.exe to Path" features to be installed
Check installation: "C:\Python27\Scripts" is now correctly present
So for some unknown reason, pip is not correctly installed on some versions of Windows if it is installed during default Python 27 setup. To fix this issue, pip must be installed afterwards using the "Change Python" setup.

I meet the same issue when install Python 2.7.9. The installer does not come with pip.
Solution:
Install newer python2 x86 version: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2718/
Then pip is located at C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe

It happens on windows as you should have admin rights to install anything on disk C.
I have the same issue Scripts folder was not installed. I would sugest to instal it on disk D.

How to install win32com module in a virtualenv?

I have installed both virtualenv and pywin32 on my Windows 7 64-bit laptop, and each of them seems to work, but not with each other.
More specifically, if a virtualenv is active, then running import win32com.client in a python interactive shell fails with No module named win32com.client. The same expression succeeds, however, if no virtualenv is active.
When I try to install pywin32 with pip (which is how I normally install modules when a virtualenv is active), I get the error:
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pywin32
No distributions at all found for pywin32
...even though pywin32 is one of the modules listed in the output of
pip search pywin32
Therefore, to install pywin32 at all I had to install it using an *.exe installer downloaded from SourceForge.
Is there any way to install pywin32 within a virtualenv?

UPDATE 2016
There is now a version of pywin32 on PyPI that can be installed with pip. It is called pypiwin32, and it installs the package using the binary wheel format.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiwin32
pip install pypiwin32
That will work in a virtualenv, or with tox, etc.
Below this line is my previous old answer. That is now outdated information.
OLD ANSWER - OUTDATED. Modern versions of virtualenv default to --no-site-packages. That means that not having access to global site-packages is now the default behavior.
Sadly, (as of July 2014) you can not pip install pywin32 in to your virtualenv. (here's the bug report)
If you want to get pywin32 running inside a virtualenv, activate the virtualenv and use easy_install and the pywin32 installer exe file. For example
easy_install "C:\Path\To\Downloads\pywin32-219.win32-py3.4.exe"
Related question

Try this:
Download directly
Enable your virtualenv
pip install --no-index --find-links:/local/dir/ SomePackage
Check out #8 on pip-installer.org (sorry no permalink)/

Create a virtualenv and activate it:
cd c:\Users\ernesto.luzon
virtualenv --no-site-packages py351env
py351env\Scripts\activate
From here, you have two options:
Download pywin32 from sourceforge project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/
Download pywin32 from unofficial (but very helpful) binary site:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pywin32
Make sure you download the correct version for the Python Interpreter installed in your environment, otherwise you will encounter ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application later.
If you downloaded from sourceforge, install it using easy_install:
(py351env) C:\Users\ernesto.luzon\Downloads>easy_install pywin32-220.win-amd64-py3.5.exe
If you downloaded from gohlke, install it using pip:
(py351env) C:\Users\ernesto.luzon\Downloads>pip install pywin32-220-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl
In case you encounter ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found error later on, you need these additional steps:
Run the post install script:
(py351env) C:\Users\ernesto.luzon>python py351env\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py -install
Copied pythoncom35.dll to C:\Users\ernesto.luzon\py351env\pythoncom35.dll
Copied pywintypes35.dll to C:\Users\ernesto.luzon\py351env\pywintypes35.dll
....
Notice where it copied the 'pythoncom35.dll' and 'pywintypes35.dll' files. You need to move these files to the folder:
C:\Users\ernesto.luzon\py351env\Lib\site-packages\win32