Use external packages in eth-brownie?

Question

I am trying open a ERC721 smart contract in Brownie on VSCode and loop through the token ids and set the URI of each in each iteration. I execute the script with brownie run scripts/parcel_asset/testpyodbc.py. I am trying to use an ODBC driver named pyodbc to query an Access database and create a cursor to iterate. It works fine when running as just a python script but Brownie gives a error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyodbc'. Is there a way to his odbc with Brownie?

Below is the error I get

\nft> brownie run scripts/parcel_asset/testpyodbc.py
Brownie v1.17.2 - Python development framework for Ethereum
File ".\scripts\parcel_asset\testpyodbc.py", line 1, in <module>
import pyodbc
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyodbc'
Terminating local RPC client...
PS C:\Users\philk\Dropbox\smartCity\nft\OrlandoMagicOrange\nft> brownie run scripts/parcel_asset/testpyodbc.py
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
Brownie v1.17.2 - Python development framework for Ethereum

NftProject is the active project.
import pyodbc
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyodbc'
Terminating local RPC client...

Answer 1

If you installed brownie with pipx, you'll need to inject outside packages into your project.

So instead of

pip install matplotlib

It would be

pipx inject eth-brownie matplotlib

pipx installs packages into a siloed virtual environment, so you have to install into that the brownie virtual environment to use other packages.

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Answer 2

I found this on a Discord channel: brownie is installed to its own virtual environment, if you want other packages to work you have to "inject" them into the brownie virtualenv: When using brownie I can't use external modules, pip install doesn't work brownie but full disclosure, i tried this for another package i was working with to no avail.

pipx inject eth-brownie pyodbc 

This fixed the problem