db access

Chris Mellon arkanes at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 11:38:36 EST 2006


On 12/28/06, Martin P. Hellwig <mhellwig at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> king kikapu wrote:
> > Hey Martin,
> >
> > thanks for the fast reply!
> >
> > I have already seen that link and i just downloaded the pyodbc module
> > but isn't Python already containing a "built-in" odbc module so to
> > allow for db communication ??
> >
> <cut>
> Not that I'm aware of, but it is possible to do odbc with the win32
> extensions which are commonly installed on windows machines, perhaps
> you've seen something like that?
>

Yes, but you don't want to. Use pyodbc (or adodbapi, if you're windows
only) and save yourself the trouble.



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