Re: [IBMiOSS] Error installing ibm_db for python

You have several things not going the way you'd want:

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 2:31 PM Jack Tucky <jacktucky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

*pip install ibm_db*

Don't use pip for that, use yum. As a general rule for open source on
IBM i, always try yum first.

Using cached
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d0/b7/4b133397dbaa5f7046f95b59a784d8030f43a1228aee371affeb4f4b6a6c/ibm_db-
3.1.0.tar.gz

Yeah, that's the ibm-db package found on PyPI (which is the main place
pip looks for things). Despite its claims, it doesn't properly support
Db2 for i.

file_stream = BytesIO(request.urlopen(url,
context=context).read())

TypeError: initial_value must be unicode or None, not str

That suggests that the Python trying to do the installing (via pip) is
Python 2. Unless you know what you're doing with virtual environments,
it's always better to be explicit and say pip3.

John Y.