"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >| I've read .MDB files using ODBC. I don't know how big your files are, >| but I had a file with almost 3000 rows and I was able to fetch it in >| 1-2 seconds. If you want to give it whirl, you just need to create an >| ODBC connection and then do the following: > > I'll just mention that OpenOffice.org Base can make ODBC connections and > output in several formats. Don't know if their ODBC works with .MDB. >
I just tried opening an mdb file from Open Office under Ubuntu. No problems whatsoever except that the pulldown for 'Connect to an existing database' listed 'Microsoft Access' twice. (This was a completely standard, never before run, copy of Base.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
