Unable to send Unicode to SQL Server using pymssql

Question

I\'m having issues sending unicode to SQL Server via pymssql:

In [1]:     import pymssql
            conn = pymssql.connect(host=\'hostname\', user=\'me\', p         


        

Answer 1

Ended up using pypyodbc instead. Needed some assistance to connect, then used the doc recipe for executing statements:

import pypyodbc
conn = pypyodbc.connect("DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=my_server;UID=MyUserName;PWD=MyPassword;DATABASE=MyDB")
cur = conn.cursor
cur.execute('''INSERT INTO MyDB(rank,text,author) VALUES(?,?,?)''', (1, u'Monsieur le Curé of the «Notre-Dame-de-Grâce» neighborhood', 'Charles S.'))
cur.commit()