From jsacksteder at gmail.com  Mon Sep  5 01:21:41 2005
From: jsacksteder at gmail.com (jeff sacksteder)
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 19:21:41 -0400
Subject: [DB-SIG] unicode woes.
Message-ID: <51c8a7be05090416216206ac21@mail.gmail.com>

Access 2000 and it's newer ilk use unicode for memo fields. Python's DBI 
chokes when reading data out of such fields, producing an error like this-
'Invalid character value for cast specification on column number 7'. 

I can state with certainty that there should be no non-ascii characters in 
those fields. Is there a way to alter the unicode 'cast'-ing step to drop 
unparsable characters?

Whereabouts is that handled in DBI?
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From marcos at burke.ath.cx  Mon Sep  5 09:51:08 2005
From: marcos at burke.ath.cx (Marcos =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E1nchez?= Provencio)
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:51:08 +0200
Subject: [DB-SIG] unicode woes.
In-Reply-To: <51c8a7be05090416216206ac21@mail.gmail.com>
References: <51c8a7be05090416216206ac21@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1125906668.8324.1.camel@savin.proteus>

You should evaluate migration to http://adodbapi.sourceforge.net/

The ODBC module that comes with Python is totally obsolete. If you plan
to use it, you are on your own.

El dom, 04-09-2005 a las 19:21 -0400, jeff sacksteder escribi?:
> Access 2000 and it's newer ilk use unicode for memo fields. Python's
> DBI chokes when reading data out of such fields, producing an error
> like this-
> 'Invalid character value for cast specification on column number 7'. 
> 
> I can state with certainty that there should be no non-ascii
> characters in those fields. Is there a way to alter the unicode
> 'cast'-ing step to drop unparsable characters?
> 
> Whereabouts is that handled in DBI?
> _______________________________________________
> DB-SIG maillist  -  DB-SIG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
-- 
Marcos S?nchez Provencio <marcos at burke.ath.cx>


From mal at egenix.com  Mon Sep  5 10:42:04 2005
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:42:04 +0200
Subject: [DB-SIG] unicode woes.
In-Reply-To: <51c8a7be05090416216206ac21@mail.gmail.com>
References: <51c8a7be05090416216206ac21@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <431C04DC.6010607@egenix.com>

jeff sacksteder wrote:
> Access 2000 and it's newer ilk use unicode for memo fields. Python's DBI 
> chokes when reading data out of such fields, producing an error like this-
> 'Invalid character value for cast specification on column number 7'. 
> 
> I can state with certainty that there should be no non-ascii characters in 
> those fields. Is there a way to alter the unicode 'cast'-ing step to drop 
> unparsable characters?
> 
> Whereabouts is that handled in DBI?

I'm not sure which DB interface you are talking about, but
I can assure you that mxODBC doesn't have those problems:
it will happily read and write Unicode to Access.

For backwards compatiblity reasons, mxODBC runs in 8-bit only
mode if not told otherwise. To have mxODBC connections run
in native Unicode mode you have to set them up using the
.stringformat attribute:

    connection = mx.ODBC.Windows.DriverConnect(...)
    connection.stringformat = mx.ODBC.Windows.NATIVE_UNICODE_STRINGFORMAT
    # or
    connection.stringformat = mx.ODBC.Windows.MIXED_STRINGFORMAT

For more information, have a look at the data types section
and the connection.stringformat documentation:

    http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxODBC.html#Datatypes

Hope that helps,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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From arun.tyagi at teleatlas.com  Tue Sep  6 05:42:24 2005
From: arun.tyagi at teleatlas.com (Arun Tyagi)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:12:24 +0530
Subject: [DB-SIG] Python query
Message-ID: <431D1020.4A4C5E06@teleatlas.com>

Hi,

i want to know how can we execute MS Access macro through python code.

please help.Its very urgent.

Regards
Arun


From csotelop at yahoo.es  Tue Sep  6 15:27:28 2005
From: csotelop at yahoo.es (Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:27:28 -0500
Subject: [DB-SIG] Python query
In-Reply-To: <431D1020.4A4C5E06@teleatlas.com>
References: <431D1020.4A4C5E06@teleatlas.com>
Message-ID: <431D9940.2020907@yahoo.es>

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Arun Tyagi escribi?:

> Hi,
> i want to know how can we execute MS Access macro through python code.
> please help.Its very urgent.

maybe you can check pythonwin, for doing it, I don't know if it could
help  you, but i hope so.
and maybe this thread coul be helpful
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2003-April/000955.html

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From marcos at burke.ath.cx  Tue Sep  6 15:27:28 2005
From: marcos at burke.ath.cx (Marcos =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E1nchez?= Provencio)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:27:28 +0200
Subject: [DB-SIG] Python query
In-Reply-To: <431D1020.4A4C5E06@teleatlas.com>
References: <431D1020.4A4C5E06@teleatlas.com>
Message-ID: <1126013249.9138.23.camel@savin.proteus>

You must use COM and have access installed:

from win32com.client import Dispatch
strDbName = 'Put the path to your database here '
objAccess = Dispatch("Access.Application") 
#objAccess.Visible = False 
objAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase(strDbName) 
objDB = objAccess.CurrentDb() 
macro = objDB.containers("Scripts").Documents['macroName'] 

etc.

Please check vba docs. I have hacked this example from the web and
cannot check it from linux.

El mar, 06-09-2005 a las 09:12 +0530, Arun Tyagi escribi?:
> Hi,
> 
> i want to know how can we execute MS Access macro through python code.
> 
> please help.Its very urgent.
> 
> Regards
> Arun
> 
> _______________________________________________
> DB-SIG maillist  -  DB-SIG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
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From csotelop at yahoo.es  Tue Sep  6 15:35:42 2005
From: csotelop at yahoo.es (Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:35:42 -0500
Subject: [DB-SIG] unicode woes.
In-Reply-To: <51c8a7be05090416216206ac21@mail.gmail.com>
References: <51c8a7be05090416216206ac21@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <431D9B2E.5090207@yahoo.es>

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The modulo adodbapi help with ms datadases, using ado objects

http://adodbapi.sourceforge.net/

It is simple and use the DB-API 2.0

jeff sacksteder escribi?:
> Access 2000 and it's newer ilk use unicode for memo fields. Python's DBI
> chokes when reading data out of such fields, producing an error like this-
> 'Invalid character value for cast specification on column number 7'.
> 
> I can state with certainty that there should be no non-ascii characters
> in those fields. Is there a way to alter the unicode 'cast'-ing step to
> drop unparsable characters?
> 
> Whereabouts is that handled in DBI?
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> DB-SIG maillist  -  DB-SIG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig


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From carsten at uniqsys.com  Mon Sep 19 15:36:20 2005
From: carsten at uniqsys.com (Carsten Haese)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:36:20 -0400
Subject: [DB-SIG] InformixDB-1.5 released
Message-ID: <1127136980.25211.31.camel@dot.uniqsys.com>

Hi Everybody:

I have released a new version, version 1.5, of InformixDB, the DB-API
module for connecting to IBM Informix database engines.

Download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/informixdb .

Notable changes since version 1.4:

* Further steps towards DB-API 2 compliance: added recommended keyword
arguments to connect() method and implemented cursor methods/attributes
.next(), .executemany(), .rowcount, and .arraysize

* informixdb.Error now makes details about the error (such as sqlcode)
available as attributes.

* sqlerrd wasn't initialized properly, and under many circumstances it
didn't correspond to the most recent operation.


Best regards,

Carsten Haese.