Help using ODBC.pyd to retrieve ntext data from SQL server

[Stephen]

I need help with a work around to read data from an ntext field on
Microsoft SQL Server v7.0.  Python only returns None.  I'm able to get
at the data in the field using a variety of other applications
(Access, Query analyzer, etc...)  I have been through the odbc.pyd
source and don't find any obvious exclusions for ntext data types. 
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Stephen