[ale] Accessing MS SQL Server from Python on Linux

[hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the subject problem.  I'm 
used to importing the pygresql module into python and then I can have 
Python like:

    db = _pg.connect(db_name, db_location)

and so forth.

Anyway, I'm finding myself needing to pull the same trick on a MS SQL 
Server instance on another machine and I'm not finding anything as 
straightforward.

On Freenode IRC, I'm being directed to things like the Sybase module for 
Python (for which there seems to be no Gentoo ebuild, leading me to 
believe that this isn't widely used) and FreeTDS, but I'm not seeing at 
all how these things integrate.

What would be typical practice for doing what I'm trying to do?

Jeff