[ale] Accessing MS SQL Server from Python on Linux

[Scott Castaline]

Geoffrey wrote:

>Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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>>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:
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>>    db = _pg.connect(db_name, db_location)
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>>and so forth.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>What would be typical practice for doing what I'm trying to do?
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>ODBC??
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