example: import pyodbc
from sqlalchemy import create_engine def creator(): config = { 'driver': 'ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server', 'host': 'localhost', 'port': 1433, 'user': 'me', 'pw': 'mypw', 'dbname': 'mydb' } return pyodbc.connect( "DRIVER={{{driver}}};SERVER={host},{port};DATABASE={dbname};UID={user};PWD={pw}" .format( driver=config['driver'], host=config['host'], port=config.get('port',1433), dbname=config['dbname'], user=config['user'], pw=config['pw'] ) ) # works odbc_conn = creator() # fails e = create_engine('mssql://', creator=creator) /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/connectors/pyodbc.py:79: SAWarning: No driver name specified; this is expected by PyODBC when using DSN-less connections "No driver name specified; " This is on SqlAlchemy 1.3.17 -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sqlalchemy/d3691dac-431b-4ed1-8670-59b8b959f81f%40googlegroups.com.