What's causing 'unable to connect to data source' for pyodbc?

Question

I\'m trying to connect to an MSSQL database from python on Linux (SLES).

I have installed pyodbc and Free TDS. From the command line:

tsql -H server          


        

Answer 1

You can also set an environmental variable in your python script:

os.environ['TDSVER'] = '8.0'