SqlAlchemy equivalent of pyodbc connect string using FreeTDS

Question

The following works:

import pyodbc
pyodbc.connect(\'DRIVER={FreeTDS};Server=my.db.server;Database=mydb;UID=myuser;PWD=mypwd;TDS_Version=8.0;Port=1433;\')
         


        

Answer 1

This works:

import sqlalchemy
sqlalchemy.create_engine("DRIVER={FreeTDS};Server=my.db.server;Database=mydb;UID=myuser;PWD=mypwd;TDS_Version=8.0;Port=1433;").connect()

In that format, SQLAlchemy just ignores the connection string and passes it straight on to pyodbc.

Update:

Sorry, I forgot that the uri has to be url-encoded, therefore, the following works:

import sqlalchemy
sqlalchemy.create_engine("DRIVER%3D%7BFreeTDS%7D%3BServer%3Dmy.db.server%3BDatabase%3Dmydb%3BUID%3Dmyuser%3BPWD%3Dmypwd%3BTDS_Version%3D8.0%3BPort%3D1433%3B").connect()