You're using backslashes. Try forward slashes. (The doubling itself is harmless though; just display.)
On May 21, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Random <[email protected]> wrote: > I am also getting the same error when I try to setup a DB connection in > Django. It is automatically putting two forward slashes on my username. > > On Monday, May 21, 2012 1:48:34 PM UTC-5, Random wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It seems that I'm unable to connect to a mssql database. I am getting the > error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "gluon/dal.py", line 5955, in __init__ > File "gluon/dal.py", line 2280, in __init__ > RuntimeError: Unable to import driver > > when using the connection string: > > db = SQLDB('mssql://username:password@\\server\instance/databasename') > > However I am able to connect using pymssql module in regular Python 2.7 using > the connection string (with the same credentials): > > pymssql.connect(host='hostname', user='username', password='password', > database='database') > > Any ideas? Thanks in advance. >
