Making dynamic data available via ODBC with Python

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> 
> Is there some better way of doing this -- some way to provide tabular
> data remotely to Windows machines, usable in Office programs, which
> happens to already have some Python code written for it? Looking
> around, there is at least one XML-to-ODBC bridge but encoding the
> entire data file as XML is likely to have prohibitive overhead.

I still think that this is the most viable solution - if performance is bad,
you could still explore other possibilities.

 If it actually is performing bad - either literally or due to a badly
design - I'd go for creating a odbc2your-server driver. That would allow
you to cope with a pretty well defined standard (odbc) and doing the
network stuff totally on your own behalf instead of trying to make some
self-written protocol stack like postgres so compatible that a postgres
odbc driver doesn't know the difference.

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch