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2475566 - "LookupError: unknown encoding" error happened - SAP IQ

Symptom

When trying to connect to an IQ database and run a python script, an error below happened.

C:\IQ16\IQ-16_0\SDK\Python\Scripts>C:\Python\Python36-32\python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 24, in <module>
con = sqlanydb.connect(userid='DBA', password='sql', dbn='VMNLSIQ', eng='VMNLSIQ', commlinks='tcpip{host=x.x.193.143;port=2638}')
File "C:\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\sqlanydb-1.0.6-py3.6.egg\sqlanydb.py", line 466, in connect
File "C:\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\sqlanydb-1.0.6-py3.6.egg\sqlanydb.py", line 505, in __init__
LookupError: unknown encoding: IBM949


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Environment

SAP IQ 16.0 SP11 PL07
Python 3.6.1

Product

SAP IQ 16.0

Keywords

SAP IQ, IQ, python, lookuperror, unknown encoding , KBA , BC-SYB-IQ , Sybase IQ , Problem

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