Python - MS SQL Server Modules
Python MS SQL Server Interface Modules
- Accessing SQL Server - PythonInfo Wiki
- MS SQL Server Module by Object Craft
- PyMSSQL @ SourceForge
- mxODBC
- Vaults of Parnassus Database Links
- IronPython
- SQL Relay
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Using mxODBC
How about trying mxODBC ([4]). I found that it's quite easy to install and works great. Besides, the Win32 ODBC module, according to the Python Website, is not currently being maintained by anyone.
Using mxODBC, I found that the following line will create a connection to a database within a CGI script:
# Open connect to Database via ODBC db = Odbc.Windows.DriverConnect('DRIVER={Microsoft ODBC for Oracle};SERVER=Test;UID=userid;PWD=password;')
Obviously, I'm using the ODBC driver for Oracle, so replace this driver with SQL Server.
Good Luck, Paul
"Navtej Riyait" <Navtej.Riyait at ukgateway.net> wrote in message news:86ioek$iek$1 at lure.pipex.net... > Hello, > > I am trying to create a little test web application in python/HTML using > IIS. I have setup IIS so that .cgi scripts are sent to the python > interpreter. I am trying to access a SQL Server database, 'pubs' (using > Python DB APIs). I am importing odbc, dbi in my script. Database access > works fine when I run a dbtest script at the command line, but the same bit > of code gives an error when run in the .cgi script. It is not finding the > data source name (DSN). I have set up the DSN in the ODBC Driver Manager > correctly. > > I can't see what environment parameters to set to get the .cgi python script > to access the 'pubs' database. Can anyone help ? > > > Thanks >
Some Examples
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Example 1
import pymssql
con = pymssql.connect(host='192.168.13.122',user='sa',password=,database='tempdb') cur = con.cursor()
query="create table pymssql (no int, fno float, comment varchar(50));"
cur.execute(query)
print "create table: %d" % cur.rowcount
for x in range(10):
query="insert into pymssql (no,fno,comment) values (%d,%d.%d,'%dth comment');" % (x+1,x+1,x+1,x+1) ret=cur.execute(query) print "insert table: %d" % cur.rowcount
for x in range(10):
query="update pymssql set comment='%dth hahaha.' where no = %d" % (x+1,x+1) ret=cur.execute(query) print "update table: %d" % cur.rowcount
query="EXEC sp_tables; select * from pymssql;"
for x in range(10):
cur.execute(query)
while 1:
print cur.fetchall() if 0 == cur.nextset(): break
query="drop table pymssql;"
cur.execute(query)
print "drop table: %d" % cur.rowcount
con.commit() con.close()
Example 2
import _mssql mssql=_mssql.connect('192.168.13.122','sa','') mssql.select_db('tempdb') # create db query="create table pymssql (no int, comment varchar(50));" ret = mssql.query(query) if ret: print "create table: %d" % ret print mssql.fetch_array() else: print mssql.errmsg() # insert for x in range(10): query="insert into pymssql (no,comment) values (%d,'%dth comment');" % (x+1,x+1) ret=mssql.query(query) if ret: print "insert table: %d" % ret print mssql.fetch_array() else: print mssql.errmsg() # update for x in range(10): query="update pymssql set comment='%dth hahaha.' where no = %d" % (x+1,x+1) ret=mssql.query(query) if ret: print "update table: %d" % ret print mssql.fetch_array() else: print mssql.errmsg() # multiple query and multiple result query="EXEC sp_tables; select * from pymssql;" for x in range(10): if mssql.query(query): header=mssql.fetch_array() for y in header: print y #print x,header[0][0][0],len(header[0][1][0]) else: print mssql.errmsg() print mssql.stdmsg() # drop table query="drop table pymssql;" ret = mssql.query(query) if ret: print "drop table: %d" % ret print mssql.fetch_array() else: print mssql.errmsg() mssql.close()
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MS SQL Server DBI Implementation
This DBI implements the Cursor and Connection objects. It is functional: you can create connections, cursors, do fetchone, fetchall, get rowcount, etc. It uses osql or SQL2005's sqlcmd instead of ODBC or ADO. There is a good sized section with examples to get you started. The SQL2005 support is new, showing improved execution speed for SQL2005's sqlcmd.exe, even when accessing SQL2000 databases.
#dblib.py #created by Jorge Besada import os,sys class Connection: def __init__(self,sname,uname='',password='',db='', version=''): self.version = version self.servername = sname self.username = uname self.password = password self.defdb = db self.constr = '' if db == '': self.defdb = 'master' self.connected = 0 if self.version == None or self.version == "": print "Need to pass sql version argument" return self if self.version == "sql2000" or self.version == "sql7": execsql = "osql" if self.version == "sql2005": execsql = "sqlcmd" if self.version == "sybase": execsql = "isql" print "Sorry, Sybase has not been implemented yet!" return self if uname == '': self.constr = execsql + " -E -S" + self.servername + " -d" + self.defdb + " /w 8192 " else: self.constr = execsql + " -U" + self.username + " -P" + self.password + " -S" + self.servername + " -d" + self.defdb + " /w 8192 " #test connection: s = "set nocount on select name from master..syslogins where name = 'sa'" lst = os.popen(self.constr + ' -Q' + '"' + s + '"').readlines() try: if lst[2].strip() == 'sa': self.connected = 1 else: self.connected = 0 c = Cursor() c.servername = sname c.username = uname c.password = password c.defdb = db c.constr = self.constr self.cursor = c except IndexError: print "Could not connect" def commit(self): "this is here for compatibility" pass def close(self): self = None return self class Cursor: def __init__(self): self.defdb = '' self.servername = '' self.username = '' self.password = '' self.constr = '' self.rowcount = -1 self.records = [] self.rowid = 0 self.sqlfile = "-Q" self.colseparator = chr(1) #default column separator #this is going to be a list of lists, each one with: #name, type_code, display_size, internal_size, precision, scale, null_ok self.description = [] self.fieldnames = [] self.fieldvalues = [] self.fieldvalue = [] #one dictionary by column self.dictfield = {'name':'', 'type_code':0,'display_size':0,'internal_size':0,'precision':0, 'scale':0, 'null_ok':0} #list of lists self.dictfields = [] #this is for compatibility to allow both types of calls: #cursor = connection.cursor() or using cursor = connection.cursor def __call__(self): c = Cursor() return c def execute(self, s): self.records = [] lst = os.popen(self.constr + ' -s' + self.colseparator + " " + self.sqlfile + '"' + s + '"').readlines() if len(lst) == 0: return self.rowcount #If we get here we have results #rowcount maybe in last line, in this form: (4 rows affected) tmplastline = lst[-1] if tmplastline[0] == "(": #there is a rowcount lastline = lst[-1] spacepos = lastline.index(" ") count = lastline[1:spacepos] self.rowcount = int(count) else: #last line has no recordcount, so reset it to 0 self.records = lst[:] self.rowcount = 0 return self.rowcount #if we got here we may have a rowcount and the list with results i = 0 #process metadata if we have it: firstline = lst[0] lst1 = lst[0].split(self.colseparator) self.fieldnames = [] for x in lst1: x1 = x.strip() self.fieldnames.append(x1) #add column name #need to make a list for each column name self.description = [] for x in self.fieldnames: l = [] l.append(x) for m in range(len(self.dictfield) - 1): l.append(0) l2 = tuple(l) self.description.append(l2) self.description = tuple(self.description) #Data section: lst[0] is row with column names,skip #If the resulting string starts and ends with '-', discard for x in lst[1:-1]: x0 = ''.join(x) x1 = x0.strip() if x1 > '' and x1[0] > '-' and x1[-1] > '-': self.records.append(x1) #reset for each execution self.rowid = 0 return self.rowcount #returns one row of the result set, keeps track of the position def fetchone(self): i = self.rowid j = i + 1 self.rowid = j try: return tuple(self.records[i].split(self.colseparator)) except IndexError: pass #returns whole recordset def fetchall(self): lst = [] try: for x in range(self.rowid, self.rowcount): x1 = tuple(self.records[x].split(self.colseparator)) lst.append(x1) except IndexError: pass return lst def close(self): self.records = None self = None return self #----------------------------------------- #Testing harness: we create and drop logins and databases #Edit connection for desired server name and security options: #For local server, integrated security # c = Connection('(local)',db='pubs', version='sql2000') #For local server, SQL security # c = Connection('(local)','sa','sa password',db='pubs', version='sql2000') #The first part of the test uses a restored pubs database #in a SQL2005 instance (local)\sql1, the second test uses the pubs database #from the default instance in the same server (local machine) if __name__ == '__main__': c = Connection('(local)\sql1',db='pubs', version='sql2005') print "Connection string: " + c.constr if c.connected == 1: print "Connected OK" cu = c.cursor lst = cu.execute('select * from authors') print 'rowcount=' + str(cu.rowcount) rows = cu.fetchall() for x in rows: print x c.close() #Several SQL statements test lst = cu.execute("sp_addlogin 'test2', 'test2'") print 'rowcount=' + str(cu.rowcount) lst = cu.execute("select name from master..syslogins where name = 'test2'") print 'rowcount=' + str(cu.rowcount) rows = cu.fetchall() for x in rows: print x c.close() lst = cu.execute("EXEC sp_droplogin 'test2'") print 'rowcount=' + str(cu.rowcount) lst = cu.execute("select name from master..syslogins where name = 'test2'") print 'rowcount=' + str(cu.rowcount) rows = cu.fetchall() for x in rows: print x c.close() lst = cu.execute("CREATE DATABASE test") print 'rowcount=' + str(cu.rowcount) lst = cu.execute("select name from master..sysdatabases where name = 'test'") print 'rowcount=' + str(cu.rowcount) rows = cu.fetchall() for x in rows: print x c.close() lst = cu.execute("DROP DATABASE test") print 'rowcount=' + str(cu.rowcount) lst = cu.execute("select name from master..sysdatabases where name = 'test'") print 'rowcount=' + str(cu.rowcount) rows = cu.fetchall() for x in rows: print x c.close() print "\n\nRepeating test with SQL2000" c = Connection('(local)',db='pubs', version='sql2000') print "Connection string: " + c.constr if c.connected == 1: print "Connected OK" cu = c.cursor lst = cu.execute('select * from authors') print 'rowcount=' + str(cu.rowcount) rows = cu.fetchall() for x in rows: print x c.close()