How do you get output parameters from a stored procedure in Python?

Question

I\'ve googled around a bit, but maybe I didn\'t put the correct magik incantation into the search box.

Does anyone know how to get output parameters from a stored p

Answer 1

If you cannot or don't want to modify the original procedure and have access to the database you can write a simple wrapper procedure that is callable from python.

For example, if you have a stored procedure like:

CREATE PROC GetNextNumber
   @NextNumber int OUTPUT
AS
...

You could write a wrapper like so which is easily callable from python:

CREATE PROC GetNextNumberWrap
AS
    DECLARE @RNextNumber int
    EXEC GetNextNumber @RNextNumber
    SELECT @RNextNumber
GO

Then you could call it from python like so:

import pymssql
con = pymssql.connect(...)
cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute("EXEC GetNextNumberWrap")
next_num = cur.fetchone()[0]