mac osx pyodbc stupid dumb annoying issue fix

import issue

Homebrew set up to install to /Users/shimadar/usr/local instead of /usr/local

I'm running OSX 10.11.6, Python 3.5.2, pyenv 1.0.6, pyodbc 4.0.1 (via pip). 
Went through [this][1] and connect fine with both tsql and isql as shown in the walkthrough.
Still cannot import pyodbc.

    >>> import pyodbc
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    ImportError: dlopen(/Users/shimadar/.pyenv/versions/3.5.2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pyodbc.cpython-35m-darwin.so, 2): Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/unixodbc/lib/libodbc.2.dylib
      Referenced from: /Users/shimadar/.pyenv/versions/3.5.2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pyodbc.cpython-35m-darwin.so
      Reason: image not found

Realized lib path slightly different. 

    $ otool -L /Users/shimadar/.pyenv/versions/3.5.2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pyodbc.cpython-35m-darwin.so
    /Users/shimadar/.pyenv/versions/3.5.2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pyodbc.cpython-35m-darwin.so:
    	/usr/local/opt/unixodbc/lib/libodbc.2.dylib (compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.0.0)
    	/usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 104.1.0)
    	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1238.0.0)
      
Changed the path and now it imports. 
$ install_name_tool -change /usr/local/opt/unixodbc/lib/libodbc.2.dylib /Users/shimadar/usr/local/opt/unixodbc/lib/libodbc.2.dylib /Users/shimadar/.pyenv/versions/3.5.2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pyodbc.cpython-35m-darwin.so

  [1]: https://github.com/lionheart/django-pyodbc/wiki/Mac-setup-to-connect-to-a-MS-SQL-Server
  [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6383310/python-mysqldb-library-not-loaded-libmysqlclient-18-dylib

I did install the unixODBC using Homebrew. And I have the Python installed using the Graphic Installer, instead of Homebrew installation of Python.

I don't know if it is creating the problem, but installing the unixodbc is still throwing the same error after importing pyodbc

I did also tried using brew install python3, but Homebrew version of python do not install the other libraries like Pandas, Numpy, Pyodbc too. So I installed the Python3 graphically and got all the other libraries installed.

I have MacBook Air M1

Just in case someone else runs across this, I was able to resolve this by installing the unixodbc driver via brew:
brew install unixodbc

Thanks for this it fixed my issue

Which Mac model do you have?

i think there is an issue with the mac m1's
even if you set the path to the

This is a bit of a hack, but ...

sudo mkdir -p  /usr/local/opt/unixodbc
sudo ln -s /usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/unixodbc/2.3.9/lib /usr/local/opt/unixodbc/lib
ls -la   /usr/local/opt/unixodbc/lib 

... /usr/local/opt/unixodbc/lib -> /usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/unixodbc/2.3.9/lib

Voila!

Simply installing unixodbc did not work for me.

as https://gist.github.com/rosiecakes/89d3e77c8dded619ed34dc44d25dd33a#gistcomment-3463218
the error i got was :
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find: /usr/local/opt/unixodbc/lib/libodbc.2.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture /usr/local/opt/unixodbc/lib/libodbc.2.dylib: stat() failed with errno=25 /opt/homebrew/Cellar/unixodbc/2.3.9_1/lib/libodbc.2.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture

Any ideas on how to proceed ?

brew install unixodbc. This solved my issue

Thank All

brew install unixodbc

This did help me