db access

[johnf]

king kikapu wrote:

> Hi to all,
> 
> is there a way to use an RDBMS (in my case, SQL Server) from Python by
> using some built-in module of the language (v. 2.5) and through ODBC ??
> I saw some samples that use statements like "import dbi" or "import
> odbc" but neither modules (dbi, odbc) are present on my system...
> 
> Any hint(s) ??
> 
> Thanks in advance
Although others have suggested using ODBC or ADO I have a different
solution.  If you wanted a multi-platform I would use FreeTDS with
psmssql.py.  psmssql.py does support the DB API 2.0 although it does not
support any of the extendsions.  Works with Linux, Mac and Windows.

Johnf