how to catch specific pyodbc error message

Question

I trid the following code,

import pyodbc
try:
    pyodbc.connect(\'DRIVER={%s};SERVER=%s;DATABASE=%s;UID=%s;PWD=%s\' % (driver, server, database, uid, passwo         


        

Answer 1

this will give you more clear and readable error message when connecting to mssql using myodbc:

try:
    cnxn = pyodbc.connect(...)
except pyodbc.Error as ex:
    sqlstate = ex.args[1]
    sqlstate = sqlstate.split(".")
    print(sqlstate[-3])