John Nagle schrieb: > I'm looking for something that can read .MDB files, the format > Microsoft Access uses, from Python. I need to do this on > Linux, without using Microsoft tools. I just need to read > the files once, so I can load the tables into another database. > Speed isn't an issue, and I don't need to access the file in > database fashion. The files are too big to read into RAM all at once, > though. > > I tried "MDBtools", but the only (last) release was > a pre-release three years ago, and I've encountered > many build problems trying to make it work on Fedora > Core 6.
I was just gonna suggest it. Under ubuntu, it works easy as cake, and converts the mdb nicely to some CSV-files. I think you should really try and make it work. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
