[DB-SIG] dsn syntax

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 20.08.2014 18:58, Wilson, Derek S wrote:
> What is the proper syntax for DSN? Is it only host:database or is there some other way to specify a DSN?

As others have noted, this is database module dependent.

The Python DB-API does not mandate a particular syntax for the
DSN field, since databases typically have their own ideas of how to
specify the data source, e.g. this may be a data source registered
with an ODBC manager, a config file of a client lib, a plain
host name or even a file name.

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