Python prerequisites

Python is a free, agile, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language designed to emphasize rapid development and code readability. Python has been released under several different open source licenses.

Vertica's ODBC driver is tested with multiple versions of Python. See Perl and Python requirements for details.

Python driver

Vertica requires the open source Vertica Python Client or the pyodbc driver module. See your system's Python documentation for installation and configuration information.

Supported operating systems

The Vertica ODBC driver requires one of the operating systems listed in ODBC prerequisites.

For usage and examples, see Programming Python client applications.