Office's Access XP ODBC DBI from PythonWin

[Benjamin Schollnick]

> mx.ODBC
> instead
> > of ODBC? If you don't plan commercial use it is free, and I can certainly
> > recommend it for ease of use.
> 
> Seconded.  But a minimally-working free odbc would still be
> a good thing IMHO.  Say I write utilities to be internally
> used here at work (commercial use by mx's terms).  As long
> as I run them on Windows only, I'm OK -- I can program to
> ADO and connect that to whatever DB engine.  But -- no funds
> for mxODBC for that use.  So -- no running my utilities on
> Linux boxes.  Notch one more black mark discouraging this
> spread of Linux boxes around here:-(.

Seconded here....

I was told point blankly by Marc that even though I was using MxODBC, 
for my own non-commercial projects, that since I was using it at work
it had to be commercially licensed.... Even though the app was not be 
distributed, and just a simple CGI script...

I don't mind that, I can understand where he was coming from... But 
win32's ODBC code seems to work fine for our purposes, and should still 
be developed....or maintained...

MxODBC can't be the only ODBC code out there.....

         - Benjamin