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

Ran into the same issue with pymssql and did not want to switch to pypyodbc

For me, there was no issue in removing any accents seeing that I only needed first names as a reference. So this solution may not be for everyone.

import unicodedate
firstName = u'René'
firstName = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', firstName).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
print firstName