Linux, Python and ODBC - client use

[darose at darose.net (David Rosenstrauch)]

You could use Java in conjunction with a JDBC driver for SQL Server. 
That setup would run under Linux with no problem.

DR

John Abreau wrote:
> I'm trying to deal with an MS SQL database at work, and I've poked 
> around at it a bit in python, running in a VMware session. I'd like to 
> be able to deploy a web front end for some of the scripts I'm writing, 
> which would require a way to access the MS SQL database from a python or 
> perl script running on a Linux web server.
> 
> Do the Linux ODBC drivers for python and perl allow for client access 
> like that, or are they strictly for providing a Windows front-end for 
> Linux-hosted databases?
> 
> More generally, if the ODBC drivers don't do what I want, what else would?