#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys,os
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] ='settings'
# import the modules needed to start the import
import pymssql
from datetime import *
import unicodedata
from django.core.management import setup_environ
import settings

setup_environ(settings)

#import the django models
from apps.clients.models import *

def importCompanies(conn):
	cur = conn.cursor()
	cur.execute("""SELECT
			liCompanyPk,
			szCompanyName
		FROM companies""")
	row = cur.fetchone()
	while row:
		company = Company()
		company.pk = row[0]
		company.Name = row[1]
		company.save()
		row = cur.fetchone()

if len(sys.argv) != 5:
	print 'data_import.py [server] [username] [password] [database]'
else:
	print 'host=%s, user=%s, password=%s, database=%s' % (sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2],sys.argv[3],sys.argv[4])
	conn = pymssql.connect(host=sys.argv[1], user=sys.argv[2], password=sys.argv[3], database=sys.argv[4])
	importCompanies(conn)
	conn.close()

After this I started to play around with pymssql I wanted a quick way to execute simple sql queries, not knowing of an linux alternative to the mysql console client I write another simple script to provide this basic functionality.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys,os
import _mssql

if len(sys.argv) != 5:
	print 'data_import.py [server] [username] [password] [database]'
else:
	print 'host=%s, user=%s, password=%s, database=%s' % (sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2],sys.argv[3],sys.argv[4])
	conn = _mssql.connect(server=sys.argv[1], user=sys.argv[2], password=sys.argv[3], database=sys.argv[4])
	print '>',
	cmd = raw_input()
	while cmd != 'exit':
		if cmd != '':
			print cmd
			try:
				conn.execute_query(cmd)
				for row in conn:
					for i in range(0,( len(row) / 2 )):
						print row[i],'|',
					print ''
			except _mssql.MssqlDatabaseException,e:
				print e
		print '>',
		cmd = raw_input();

	conn.close()

You can download mssql_client.py here

So after only using for python for a couple of weeks It’s definitely powerful and fun to code with. Now to try out for all of the libraries that provide bindings such as pysvn or pyldap.