Linux, Python and ODBC - client use

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

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?

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