My host is specified as follows but the error message seems to be inserting 4 slashes, so I wonder what options I should be using here.
pymysql.connect(host='MAGGIE\DIGISHOP2014',
user = dbconfig.db_user,
passwd = dbconfig.db_password,
port=1433,
db=database)
(2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'MAGGIE\\\\DIGISHOP2014' ([Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed)")