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Install distutils if you haven't already.
$ tar xvfz distutils-latest.tgz $ cd distutils $ python setup.py install
You can obtain the Python Sybase module here. This example uses version 0.34, the most current at the time of this writing, please adjust accordingly if using a different version.
$ tar xvfz sybase-0.34.tgz
$ cd sybase-0.34
$ export SYBASE=/usr/local/freetds
$ export CFLAGS="-DHAVE_FREETDS"
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/freetds/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
$ python setup.py install
Edit the example.py and fix the bottom stuff, freetds lacks the 110
symbols for version use 100
$ python example.py