Reading Dbase files

[dsavitsk]

how about trying ADO with this DSN-Less connection?

Driver={Microsoft dBASE Driver
(*.dbf)};DriverID=277;Dbq=c:\somepath\dbname.dbf;

See http://www.e-coli.net/pyado.html for details.

-d


"Leo Noordhuizen" <leo at noordhuizen.net> wrote in message
news:DRsD8.539382$Fw2.13096346 at nlnews00.chello.com...
> I am trying to read .dbf files using the (old) dbf.py module (version 0.2
> 1999/11/12 written
> by Michal Spalinski. This seemed to work quite well, untill I found out
that
> records which apparantly
> have been deleted are also read as 'normal'...
> In other words: not really useable or at least not compatible with this
> format of .dbf files.
>
> I am looking for advise how to proceed. I really need this functionality
and
> should like to keep on using Python.
>
> Thanks, Leo
>
>