I think the problem I am experiencing bears a resemblance to the content of this post:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/071421.html Does anyone know what the GUID for the DAO 3.6 library is (or can explain how I can find it)? On May 12, 11:00 pm, David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net> wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009 22:06:42 -0700 (PDT), Trevor <trevor.la...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I do not believe your assertion applies to the following line of code: > > > daoEngine = win32com.client.Dispatch(r'DAO.DBEngine.36') > > It doesn't. I'm simply suggesting that it is possible you are opening > the database in Access or something in Administrator/dba mode. That > could be causing an exclusive lock on the database so that no sub > task can then open it. > > i have seen this on old versions of Access. > > To provide excellent performance, microsoft used to load the whole > database into memory if it could. And just operate mostly from there. > > > is it possible to obtain more > > verbose error output from Python modules? The error message in the > > original post was generated from: > > > print sys.exc_info()[0] > > possibly but i'm not sure how... > > David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
