finally the solution is in this site: http://linuxapuntes.blogspot.gr/2013/01/ms-access-desde-ubuntu-con-python-and.html
step 1 (install lib) : >> sudo apt-get install mdbtools libmdbodbc1 pyodbc step 2 create a template file and use the odbcinst -i -d -f templatefile to add this to dobcinst.ini >> sudo nano tempfile and adding the followings: [MDBTools] Description=ODBC mdbtools driver for Access mdb Driver=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/libmdbodbc.so.1 #for x86_64 Server=locahost Setup=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/libmdbodbc.so.1 #for x86_64 Database=/path/to/mdb file DBQ=/path/to/mdb/file #Username=<user, if exist, otherwise just make comment this line> #Password=<pas, if exist, otherwise just make comment this line >>sudo odbcinst -i -d -f templatefile step 3 make dsn : >>sudo nano /usr/local/etc/odbc.ini add the followings: [MDBTools_dsn] Description = Microsoft Access Try DB Driver = MDBTools Database = /path/to/mdb file Servername = localhost #Username = User #Password = Password step 4 check that works : python >>import pyodbc >>cn=pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={MDBTools};SERVER=localhost;DBQ=/path/to/mdb;') or >>cn=pyodbc.connect('DSN=MDBTools_dsn') >>c=cn.cursor() >>c.execute('select * from tablename') step 5 web2py : add this to db.py : db = DAL('mssql://DRIVER={MDBTools};SERVER=localhost;DBQ=/path/to/mdb;') or db = DAL('mssql://DSN=MDBTools_dsn') The problem now : if in controler i use db.executesql('select * from tablename') everything is working perfect when i use the grid=SQLFORM.grid(tb) there is an Internal Server Error (apache2+wsgi) and the log : Premature end of script headers: wsgihandler.py can anybody help me to resolve this finall issue ? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.