Anything available that can read Microsoft .MDB files from Python?

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Mar 19 17:14:58 EDT 2007


Terry Reedy wrote:
> <kyosohma at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:1174334517.125928.274140 at l75g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> | I've read .MDB files using ODBC. I don't know how big your files are,
> | but I had a file with almost 3000 rows and I was able to fetch it in
> | 1-2 seconds. If you want to give it whirl, you just need to create an
> | ODBC connection and then do the following:
> 
> I'll just mention that OpenOffice.org Base can make ODBC connections and 
> output in several formats.  Don't know if their ODBC works with .MDB.
> 
I seem to remember I actually managed to open an MDB file with the Open 
Office database component (but that was on Windows, so I can't guarantee 
it will work on Linux).

regards
  Steve
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