Error loading SQL_VARIANT data type using Python

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Published on 2013-06-27T22:08:10Z Indexed on 2013/06/27 22:21 UTC
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I am using Python and SQLAlchemy to query a database that I did not create.

I have run into a problem querying a table that contains the SQL_VARIANT data type. I get the error:

sqlalchemy.exc.DBAPIError: (Error) ('ODBC data type -150 is not supported. Cannot read column Value.', 'HY000')

I confirmed with the database creator that the "Value" column is of type SQL_VARIANT. Does anyone know a way to load this data type using Python? I am currently using mssql with pyodbc.

Thank you for any help you can offer!

Versions:

Python 2.7,
SQLAlchemy 0.7.8

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