Note that this issue is mentioned in the pymssql FAQ: http://pymssql.org/en/stable/faq.html#pymssql-does-not-unserialize-date-and-time-columns-to-datetime-date-and-datetime-time-instances
Regards, Nathan On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:52:59 +0100, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> > declaimed the following: > > >On 2016-09-13 00:06, sum abiut wrote: > >> Thanks for the response, > >> i pulling data from an mssql database and i need to convert the date > >> column. how to i covert and pass it to my template. i am using Django > >> > >> this is what i did > >> > >> conn=pymssql.connect(server,username,password,database) > >> #cus=conn.cursor() > >> cus=conn.cursor(as_dict=True) > >> cus.execute("SELECT > >> account_code,currency_code,balance_date,debit,credit,net_ > change,home_net_change > >> FROM glbal where account_code= '50101001CORP' ") > >> > >> return render_to_response('revenue_budget.html',locals()) > >> > >> > >> how to i convert the balance_date with the code below: > >> > >> > >> > >> import datetime > >> datetime.datetime.fromordinal(733010) > >> > >> datetime.datetime(2007, 11, 30, 0, 0) > >> > >> > >The documentation for pymssql should tell you how to get the values of > >the fields. > > > >In the case of the 'balance_date' field, just pass its value into > >datetime.datetime.fromordinal like the code I gave. > > I have a suspicion the OP needs more basic help than that -- like > how > to take data from the database, modify it, and pass it on to Django for > rendering. Note that the sample code never references records from the > cursor, and seems to just dump [locals()] everthing into the response > template. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list