Installation guide

2. Installation

In both cases, the license files are sent to the email address you specified during

the purchase process or from which you wrote the evaluation license request in

form of a ZIP license archive attached to the license email – usually named

licenses.zip.

The license archive licenses.zip contains one subdirectory per license you bought.

The directories are named after the license key for each license. A typical license

archive will have these contents:

2100-8789-0322-0926-2568-6429/mxodbc_license.py

2100-8789-0322-0926-2568-6429/mxodbc_license.txt

2100-8089-0312-0926-2668-6529/mxodbc_license.py

2100-8089-0312-0926-2668-6529/mxodbc_license.txt

(in the above example, the license archive contains the files for two product

licenses).

In order to install the license files, please unzip the license archive to a temporary

directory.

In order for mxODBC to pick up the correct license files, please copy them to a

location on your

sys.path or PYTHONPATH. If you installed Python to e.g.

C:\Python27 on Windows or /usr/local/bin/python on Unix or Mac OS X, the

typical location for installation of the license files would be C:\Python27\Lib\site-

packages\ or /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/.

Use the following command to see the

sys.path that your Python version uses:

python -c "import sys; print ';'.join(sys.path)"

2.4.2 Step-by-step Installation Guide

Step 1

Determine whether you are using a UCS2 or UCS4 build of Python (Windows

users always need the UCS2 version, Mac OS X should also try the UCS2 version

first, Unix users will most likely need the UCS4 version).

To find out which variant your Python version was compiled with, run the

following command:

python -c 'print("UCS%s"%len(u"x".encode("unicode-internal")))'

This will either print out “UCS2” or “UCS4”.

Step 2

Next, install the egenix-mxodbc prebuilt package in your Python installation.