[ale] Accessing MS SQL Server from Python on Linux

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 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?

ODBC??

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Until later, Geoffrey