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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

How to install Yaml and some other Python modules on OS X sierra? [duplicate]

I'm having a hard time setting up python packages. EasyInstall from SetupTools is supposed to help that, but they don't have an executable for Python 2.6.
For instance to install Mechanize, I'm just supposed to put the Mechanize folder in C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages according to INSTALL.txt, but runnning the tests does not work. Can someone help shed some light on this? Thanks!

The accepted answer is outdated. So first, pip is preferred over easy_install, (Why use pip over easy_install?). Then follow these steps to install pip on Windows, it's quite easy.
Install setuptools:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | python
Install pip:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python
Optionally, you can add the path to your environment so that you can use pip anywhere. It's somewhere like C:\Python33\Scripts.

Newer versions of Python for Windows come with the pip package manager. (source)
pip is already installed if you're using Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.4
Use that to install packages:
cd C:\Python\Scripts\
pip.exe install <package-name>
So in your case it'd be:
pip.exe install mechanize

This is a good tutorial on how to get easy_install on windows. The short answer: add C:\Python26\Scripts (or whatever python you have installed) to your PATH.

You don't need the executable for setuptools.
You can download the source code, unpack it, traverse to the downloaded directory and run python setup.py install in the command prompt

Starting with Python 2.7, pip is included by default. Simply download your desired package via
python -m pip install [package-name]

As I wrote elsewhere
Packaging in Python is dire. The root cause is that the language ships without a package manager.
Fortunately, there is one package manager for Python, called Pip. Pip is inspired by Ruby's Gem, but lacks some features. Ironically, Pip itself is complicated to install. Installation on the popular 64-bit Windows demands building and installing two packages from source. This is a big ask for anyone new to programming.
So the right thing to do is to install pip. However if you can't be bothered, Christoph Gohlke provides binaries for popular Python packages for all Windows platforms http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
In fact, building some Python packages requires a C compiler (eg. mingw32) and library headers for the dependencies. This can be a nightmare on Windows, so remember the name Christoph Gohlke.

I had problems in installing packages on Windows. Found the solution. It works in Windows7+. Mainly anything with Windows Powershell should be able to make it work. This can help you get started with it.
Firstly, you'll need to add python installation to your PATH variable. This should help.
You need to download the package in zip format that you are trying to install and unzip it. If it is some odd zip format use 7Zip and it should be extracted.
Navigate to the directory extracted with setup.py using Windows Powershell (Use link for it if you have problems)
Run the command python setup.py install
That worked for me when nothing else was making any sense. I use Python 2.7 but the documentation suggests that same would work for Python 3.x also.

Upgrade the pip via command prompt ( Python Directory )
D:\Python 3.7.2>python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Now you can install the required Module
D:\Python 3.7.2>python -m pip install <<yourModuleName>>

pip is the package installer for python, update it first, then download what you need
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Then:
python -m pip install <package_name>

You can also just download and run ez_setup.py, though the SetupTools documentation no longer suggests this. Worked fine for me as recently as 2 weeks ago.

PS D:\simcut> C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install networkx
Collecting networkx
c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\requests\packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py:318: SNIMissingWarning: An HTTPS reques
t has been made, but the SNI (Subject Name Indication) extension to TLS is not available on this platform. This may caus
e the server to present an incorrect TLS certificate, which can cause validation failures. You can upgrade to a newer ve
rsion of Python to solve this. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security.html#snimissi
ngwarning.
SNIMissingWarning
c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\requests\packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py:122: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SS
LContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL con
nections to fail. You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this. For more information, see https://urllib3.
readthedocs.io/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
InsecurePlatformWarning
Downloading networkx-1.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.3MB)
100% |################################| 1.3MB 664kB/s
Collecting decorator>=3.4.0 (from networkx)
Downloading decorator-4.0.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: decorator, networkx
Successfully installed decorator-4.0.11 networkx-1.11
c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\requests\packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py:122: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object i
s not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. You can upgrade
to a newer version of Python to solve this. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security.html#insecureplat
formwarning.
InsecurePlatformWarning
Or just put the directory to your pip executable in your system path.

As mentioned by Blauhirn after 2.7 pip is preinstalled. If it is not working for you it might need to be added to path.
However if you run Windows 10 you no longer have to open a terminal to install a module. The same goes for opening Python as well.
You can type directly into the search menu pip install mechanize, select command and it will install:
If anything goes wrong however it may close before you can read the error but still it's a useful shortcut.

Failure to build wheel / "Error: INCLUDE Environment Variable is empty"

I am using Python 2.7.11 and am trying to pip install modules however a few of them are failing. The message I get is "Failure to build wheel for 'X'" and "Error: INCLUDE Environment Variable is empty".
I tried to install Scrapy, LXML and Twisted and those failed. Some other random modules I tried installed fine.
I have installed pyOpenSSL, added python27 and python27/scripts to environment.
Thanks,

I tried both the solutions offered, none worked.
I installed Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7, download it here. Then run:
pip install scrapy
That worked for me

A quick solution is to install the pre-compiled version of lxml. You can find it here. If you use the .exe you can point it directly to your python root folder.
After that:
close and re-open cmd
pip install your_package (make sure cmd is in the correct directory)
enjoy having no frustrating lxml errors!
Hope this helped.

Use a pre built library from this link if you are on windows:
https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
Choose the relevant library given python version and desktop config. For example
I want to install apell in python 3.6 and winamd64 then download this:
aspell_python-1.15-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
Now go to your console and type
pip install path-to-.whl
and that's it.

Trouble installing scipy despite having python2.7 and numpy installed already

I'm having trouble installing scipy via the binaries provided at http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/
Double clicking on the mpkg file after mounting the dmg installer gives the following error:
"scipy 0.13.0 can't be installed on this disk. scipy requires System Python 2.7 to install"
However, I already have python 2.7 and numpy installed. The python 2.7 came default with OSX Lion, so I assume it is System Python. With other python modules, one normally can download the binary then run
python setup.py install
Is there a way to cd through the mpkg file and locate a setup.py? Any advice install via this dmg installer?
I know there are other ways to manage python modules, like port and brew. However, I already installed a bunch of packages through setup.py, and I couldn't figure out how to get port to recognize those packages (for example, it will try to reinstall python and numpy via port)
Thanks!

If you have Mavericks and XCode 5, then you'll have to install Command Line Tools manually from the Apple Developer Site. I found this helpful post

You've got a few misconceptions here.
With other python modules, one normally can download the binary then run python setup.py install
No, that's what you do with source packages.
Is there a way to cd through the mpkg file and locate a setup.py?
No. What's inside an mpkg are pkg files. Which are filled with xar archives filled with cpio archives. Inside there is the built version of SciPy—that is, the files that setup.py would have copied to your site-packages if you'd run it—not the source package.
But you can download the source package yourself.
Or, better, let pip (or easy_install, but pip is better) download and run the setup.py for you.
Any advice install via this dmg installer?
If it won't work, my advice would be to not use it, and instead install with pip.
This blog post explains it, but I'll give you the details relevant to you below.
I know there are other ways to manage python modules, like port and brew. However, I already installed a bunch of packages through setup.py, and I couldn't figure out how to get port to recognize those packages.
You can't. MacPorts will not touch your system Python; it builds its own separate Python 2.7, with a completely independent site-packages directory and everything else. You would have to reinstall everything for this second Python 2.7. And deal with the confusion of having two Python 2.7 installations on the same machine.
Don't do that unless you absolutely have to.
In fact, if you want to use Homebrew for anything (and you do, see below), uninstall MacPorts, unless you really need it for something.
So, here are the steps:
Uninstall MacPorts.
I assume you already have Xcode and its Command Line Tools.
I assume you already have Homebrew.
Install a Fortran compiler with brew install gfortran.
Lion's Python 2.7 comes with easy_install, but not pip. So sudo easy_install pip to fix that. While you're at it, I'd suggest sudo easy_install readline, because you'll want that for ipython, and it won't work right with pip.
Apple's pre-installed NumPy has to be upgraded, and rebuilt with Fortran support, to make SciPy work. Fix that with sudo pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall numpy.
If you want ipython, pandas, etc. sudo pip install each of them as well.
In case you're considering upgrading soon, the exact same steps worked for me with OS X 10.9.0, except for some extra work to get the Xcode 5 command line tools set up.

Installing configobj for python 2.7

I'm sorry, I'm a Python scrub and I just wanted to make sure that I'm installing this library the right way.
I'm trying to get configObj installed for Python 2.7
Should I just browse to the directory the unzip is in and python.exe setup.py? If I do that will it install to the correct place? I know that seems basic but I don't work a lot with python so I just wanted to make sure since this library doesn't appear to have a windows msi. Thanks!

pip install configobj
Tt's the same for Linux versions also, provided you have pip.

Following the link provided by Tibo, I installed this library with pip install configobj. You can get pip on windows, following this post.