Using the CData ODBC Driver for SAP Business One in PyCharm

The CData ODBC Drivers can be used in any environment that supports loading an ODBC Driver. In this tutorial we will explore using the CData ODBC Driver for SAP Business One from within PyCharm. Included are steps for adding the CData ODBC Driver as a data source, as well as basic PyCharm code to query the data source and display results.

To begin, this tutorial will assume that you have already installed the CData ODBC Driver for SAP Business One as well as PyCharm.

Add Pyodbc to the Project

Follow the steps below to add the pyodbc module to your project.

1. Click File -> Settings to open the project settings window.
2. Click Project Interpreter from the Project: YourProjectName menu.
3. To add pyodbc, click the + button and enter pyodbc.
4. Click Install Package to install pyodbc.

Connect to SAP Business One

You can now connect with an ODBC connection string or a DSN. See the Getting Started section in the CData driver documentation for a guide to creating a DSN on your OS.

To authenticate to SAP Business One you must provide the and properties.

To connect to data, specify . This is your SAP Business One Service Layer root URL.

Below is the syntax for a DSN:

[CData SAPBusinessOne Source]
Driver = CData ODBC Driver for SAP Business One
Description = My Description
Url = http://localhost:50000/b1s/v1
User = username
Password = password
CompanyDB = dbname
InitiateOAuth = GETANDREFRESH

Execute SQL to SAP Business One

Instantiate a Cursor and use the execute method of the Cursor class to execute any SQL statement.

import pyodbc

cnxn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={CData ODBC Driver for SAPBusinessOne};Url = http://localhost:50000/b1s/v1;User = username;Password = password;CompanyDB = dbname;InitiateOAuth = GETANDREFRESH;')
cursor = cnxn.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT DocEntry, DocType FROM Orders WHERE DocType = 'dDocument_Items'")
rows = cursor.fetchall()
for row in rows:
 print(row.DocEntry, row.DocType)

After connecting to SAP Business One in PyCharm using the CData ODBC Driver, you will be able to build Python apps with access to SAP Business One data as if it were a standard database. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback regarding this tutorial, please contact us at [email protected].