you need to use the python-sybase package . as any other (famous) package,
it's available on pypi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-sybase
On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 12:12:38 AM UTC+2, EF wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm new to web2py and trying to test the connectivity to Sybase.
> I tried testing this on Linux:
> >>> db = DAL('sybase://myuserid:mypswd@mysybaseserver/mydbname')
>
> (please note that I used dummay names in the above statement, but the
> correct ones when testing.)
>
> I got the following error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
> File
> "/home/svc_imagine_dev/web/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/base.py", line
> 171, in __call__
> obj = super(MetaDAL, cls).__call__(*args, **kwargs)
> File
> "/home/svc_imagine_dev/web/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/base.py", line
> 457, in __init__
> raise RuntimeError("Failure to connect, tried %d times:\n%s" %
> (attempts, tb))
> RuntimeError: Failure to connect, tried 5 times:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "/home/svc_imagine_dev/web/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/base.py", line
> 435, in __init__
> self._adapter = ADAPTERS[self._dbname](**kwargs)
> File
> "/home/svc_imagine_dev/web/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters/base.py",
> line 53, in __call__
> obj = super(AdapterMeta, cls).__call__(*args, **kwargs)
> File
> "/home/svc_imagine_dev/web/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters/mssql.py",
>
> line 465, in __init__
> self.find_driver(adapter_args, uri)
> File
> "/home/svc_imagine_dev/web/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters/base.py",
> line 187, in find_driver
> raise RuntimeError("no driver available %s" % str(self.drivers))
> RuntimeError: no driver available Sybase
> Questions:
> 1. Where can I find the Sybase driver? (we are using Adaptive Server
> Enterprise/15.7)
> 2. Where should it be installed?
> 3. Once I have the correct driver, is there anything else I need to do to
> test the connection?
>
> Thanks,
> EF
>
>
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