What steps will reproduce the problem?

Attempting to connect to MSSQL database using below code:

cstr = 'DRIVER=FreeTDS;SERVER=%s;DATABASE=%s;PORT=%s;UID=%s;PWD=%s' % (host, db, '1433', user, passwd)
self.mssql = pypyodbc.connect(cstr)

Returns below error/traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data01/python/wins/e2e/usage_gatherer.py", line 258, in <module> usage_mon = usage_gatherer() File "/data01/python/wins/e2e/usage_gatherer.py", line 33, in init 'REMOVED User*', 'REMOVED Pass', '***REMOVED Table**', timeout=300) File "/usr/src/pypy/site-packages/wins/db_core/mssql.py", line 29, in init self.mssql = pypyodbc.connect(cstr) File "/usr/src/pypy/site-packages/pypyodbc-1.1.3-py2.7.egg/pypyodbc.py", line 2285, in init self.connect(connectString, autocommit, ansi, timeout, unicode_results, readonly) File "/usr/src/pypy/site-packages/pypyodbc-1.1.3-py2.7.egg/pypyodbc.py", line 2355, in connect self.update_db_special_info() File "/usr/src/pypy/site-packages/pypyodbc-1.1.3-py2.7.egg/pypyodbc.py", line 2405, in update_db_special_info info_tuple = cur.getTypeInfo(sql_type) File "/usr/src/pypy/site-packages/pypyodbc-1.1.3-py2.7.egg/pypyodbc.py", line 1882, in getTypeInfo return self.fetchone() File "/usr/src/pypy/site-packages/pypyodbc-1.1.3-py2.7.egg/pypyodbc.py", line 1772, in fetchone value_list.append(buf_cvt_func(alloc_buffer.value)) ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

Code works fine with pyodbc version 3.0.7.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? pypyodbc-1.1.3 Linux - RHEL 5 kernel 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5, freetds.x86_64 v 0.91-2.el5

Please provide any additional information below.

I was able to resolve the error by adding a try/except at line 1772, but I am uncertain as to what implications this may have.

try: value_list.append(buf_cvt_func(alloc_buffer.value)) except ValueError: #if DEBUG:print 'ValueError at fetchone() - %s %s %s' % (col_name, target_type, alloc_buffer.value, ) pass