> > Is there some better way of doing this -- some way to provide tabular > data remotely to Windows machines, usable in Office programs, which > happens to already have some Python code written for it? Looking > around, there is at least one XML-to-ODBC bridge but encoding the > entire data file as XML is likely to have prohibitive overhead.
I still think that this is the most viable solution - if performance is bad, you could still explore other possibilities. If it actually is performing bad - either literally or due to a badly design - I'd go for creating a odbc2your-server driver. That would allow you to cope with a pretty well defined standard (odbc) and doing the network stuff totally on your own behalf instead of trying to make some self-written protocol stack like postgres so compatible that a postgres odbc driver doesn't know the difference. -- Regards, Diez B. Roggisch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
