Python DBAPI driver for MSSQL using pure Python TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol implementation. Doesn't depend on ADO or FreeTDS. Can be used on any platform, including Linux, MacOS, Windows.

It can be used with https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-sqlserver as a Django database backend.

• Fully supports new MSSQL 2008 date types: datetime2, date, time, datetimeoffset
• MARS
• Bulk insert
• Table-valued parameters

• SSL encryption

To install run this command:

$ pip install python-tds

For a better performance install bitarray package too:

$ pip install bitarray

Documentation is available at https://python-tds.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

To connect to database do

import pytds
with pytds.connect('server', 'database', 'user', 'password') as conn:
    with conn.cursor() as cur:
        cur.execute("select 1")
        cur.fetchall()