I also use Python to access database on Windows. You can speed up your program by doing that:
Open PythonWin, then click on the "Tools" menu and the item "COM Makepy Utility". It will display all libraries available. Then, select "Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.7 Library" or whatever last version of ADO you have. You just need to do it once, as it registers the objects of the library in the registry ( I think. I don't completely understand the mechanism. ) If you use another library, do the same thing with the library you use. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
