PyOdbc fails to connect to a sql server instance

Question

I am trying to connect to a sql server instance using pyodbc version 3.0.6., SQLAlchemy 1.0.4 on Windows 7 using a Python 2.7 (32 bit). I am using a connection string as fol

Answer 1

OK, this seems to have resolved the issue

import urllib    
connection_string = "DRIVER={SQL Server};Database=people;SERVER=gagan;UID=sa;PWD=admin1"
connection_string = urllib.quote_plus(connection_string) 
connection_string = "mssql+pyodbc:///?odbc_connect=%s" % connection_string