How to Solve failing to install pyodbc module, Encountered error while generating package metadata

TO SOLVE THE ISSUE on your MacOs Arm64 which uses M1 or M2 chip:

***Install microsoft odbc driver before installing pyodbc module.***

if you don't do that you will keep getting errors like below:

Collecting pyodbc

Using cached pyodbc-4.0.34.tar.gz (271 kB)

Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error

error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.

│ exit code: 1

╰─> [10 lines of output]

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 2, in <module>

File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>

File "/private/var/folders/4_/yjp2wcg553724lb8tfnpy7rm0000gn/T/pip-install-mvevy2ya/pyodbc/setup.py", line 352, in <module>

main()

File "/private/var/folders/4_/yjp2wcg553724lb8tfnpy7rm0000gn/T/pip-install-mvevy2ya/pyodbc/setup.py", line 73, in main

settings = get_compiler_settings(version_str)

File "/private/var/folders/4_/yjp2wcg553724lb8tfnpy7rm0000gn/T/pip-install-mvevy2ya/pyodbc/setup.py", line 200, in get_compiler_settings

cflags, ldflags = pipe.readlines()

ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 0)

[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.

╰─> pyodbc

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.

hint: See above for details.

To install microsoft odbc driver use the following command

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

brew tap microsoft/mssql-release https://github.com/Microsoft/homebrew-mssql-release

brew update

HOMEBREW_ACCEPT_EULA=Y brew install msodbcsql17 mssql-tools

or you can visit microsoft official page by going through the following link

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/install-microsoft-odbc-driver-sql-server-macos?view=sql-server-ver16

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