On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 02:28 -0700, Jimoid wrote: > Hi All, > I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in > Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003 > database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few > columns of data from some tables. > Google hasn't been able to offer me a suitable solution to this
Google is a poor way to look for such things. It is better to go to Freshmeat / SourceForge or PyPI directly. Try <http://freshmeat.net/search?q=microsoft+access&submit=Search> mdbtools is your best bet unless you are willing to pay for the EasySoft drivers. I've had mixed success with mdbtools; if all you need to do is extract data their ODBC driver will probably work. If you are willing to use Jython (Python on the JVM) you have a *lot* more options for this kind of thing. > problem, and although there are some references to this problem in the > archives of this group, they are mainly very old and I wonder if there > is anything more recent that members could suggest to me? > Python would be my language of choice, however if someone has any > other suggestions then I'm open to ideas. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
