Hi Jonathan, For the record, in my current setup, I installed python via Homebrew. Prior to that, I was using the Apple build of python, which would have been the 32-bit version that came with Lion.
Greg-- On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Jonathan Vanasco <jonat...@findmeon.com> wrote: > Looking at that issue, and suggested fix... I think you're best going with > that route. the stock apple Python is usually pretty bad, and it seems to > be the compile settings apple selected, not python. apple's version is > often VERY out of date and has some weird settings. It's screwed me and > colleagues up a lot. I'd strongly suggest you do the following: > > 1. Install a second, custom python [ you can get one from Python.org in a > click-installer https://www.python.org/download/mac ]. You can then > update your bash so that your console user will use that python, and not > break anything on your mac. > > 2. reinstall all pyodbc and everything else into that custom python's > site-packages. you actually need to do all this stuff whenever you have a > version bump (2.7.7 to 2.7.8), but some packages magically work even if you > don't. > > i've found that "shit just works" when you use a python.org interpreter. > > > On Monday, September 8, 2014 7:04:17 PM UTC-4, Horcle wrote: > >> Unfortunately, dumping SQL Server (in favor of Oracle) may not be an >> option, due to management concerns and other factors. Still working on it. >> >> However, I did manage to get this working with pymssql. Apparently, there >> is a bug with pyodbc and 64-bit python (see https://community. >> vertica.com/vertica/topics/mac_pyodbc_string_encoding_issue). So, short >> of applying the fix to the cpp file recompiling pyodbc (see >> http://www.vertica-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1863&p=6174#p6174), >> the easy solution is to use pymssql. I believe the upgrade I did from Lion >> to Mavericks allows use of 64-bit python now, so this makes sense. >> >> Thanks! >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sqlalchemy/-i4-GQpXkzY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
