I'm proud to announce version 0.7.2 of pymssql. This version fixes some problems with binary data types, changes handling of data types (e.g. dates are returned as date object instead of string), and should perform better than the previous versions. Everybody is encouraged to install or upgrade (but beware as some things are changed -- read release information, help(_mssql) and run in test environment first!)
UPDATE: This release has been withdrawn due to a bug in build system. Please use 0.7.3 instead.