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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:57:32 -0600
Subject: pyodbc connect string
From: Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
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I am having a problem building a connect string for pyodbc. It works
when everything is hard coded, but if I build the connect string it
fails.

This works:

pyodbc.connect('DRIVER=FreeTDS;' 'SERVER=xx.xx.xx.xx;' 'PORT=1433;'
'DATABASE=blah;' 'UID=foo;' 'PWD=bar;')

But this does not:

pyodbc.connect(conn_str)

Where conn_str is:

'DRIVER=FreeTDS;' 'SERVER=xx.xx.xx.xx;' 'PORT=1433;' 'DATABASE=blah;'
'UID=foo;' 'PWD=bar;'

conn_str is constructed with:

 conn_str = "'DRIVER=%s;' 'SERVER=%s;' 'PORT=%s;' 'DATABASE=%s;'
'UID=%s;' 'PWD=%s;'" \
                % (RECIPE_DB['DRIVER'], RECIPE_DB['SERVER'],
RECIPE_DB['PORT'], RECIPE_DB['DATABASE'],
                   RECIPE_DB['USER'], RECIPE_DB['PASSWORD'])

Anyone have any ideas as to why this doesn't work.