Can't use DB name with dashes using pymssql ???

[Fredrik Lundh]

Samuel Morhaim wrote:

> I believe there is a bug in Python.. _mssql ...    I am not too familiar 
> with Python yet, but after adding several breakpoints and watching the 
> variable, the last step of pymssql.py is
> 
>     # open the connection
>     con = _mssql.connect(dbhost, dbuser, dbpasswd)
> 
>
>     con.select_db(dbbase)
> At this point the contents of dbbase is "Gcare4UI-B6_3_dev" (no 
> quotes)...  however, the immediate error is that
> "Gcare4UI" does not exist.

reading the documentation might help:

     http://pymssql.sourceforge.net/troubleshooting.html#dbid

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