How to use the pymssql.version.split function in pymssql

DATABASE_ODBC_DRIVER        - ODBC Driver. Defalut is "{Sql Server}".
DATABASE_ODBC_EXTRA_PARAMS  - Additional parameters for the ODBC connection.
                              The format is "param=value;param=value".
"""
from django.db.backends import BaseDatabaseWrapper, BaseDatabaseFeatures, util
from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
from operations import DatabaseOperations

need_param_rewrite=False
try:
    import pymssql as Database
except ImportError, ex:
    try:
        need_param_rewrite=True
        import pyodbc as Database
        version = tuple(map(int, Database.version.split('.')))
        if version < (2,0,38) :
            raise ImportError("pyodbc 2.0.38 or newer is required; you have %s" % Database.version)
    except ImportError, e:
        raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading pymssq/pyodbc modules: %s" % ex)

try:
    # Only exists in Python 2.4+
    from threading import local
except ImportError:
    # Import copy of _thread_local.py from Python 2.4
    from django.utils._threading_local import local

DatabaseError = Database.DatabaseError
IntegrityError = Database.IntegrityError

class DatabaseFeatures(BaseDatabaseFeatures):