Anything available that can read Microsoft .MDB files from Python?
Diez B. Roggisch
deets at nospam.web.de
Mon Mar 19 15:20:12 EDT 2007
John Nagle schrieb:
> I'm looking for something that can read .MDB files, the format
> Microsoft Access uses, from Python. I need to do this on
> Linux, without using Microsoft tools. I just need to read
> the files once, so I can load the tables into another database.
> Speed isn't an issue, and I don't need to access the file in
> database fashion. The files are too big to read into RAM all at once,
> though.
>
> I tried "MDBtools", but the only (last) release was
> a pre-release three years ago, and I've encountered
> many build problems trying to make it work on Fedora
> Core 6.
I was just gonna suggest it. Under ubuntu, it works easy as cake, and
converts the mdb nicely to some CSV-files.
I think you should really try and make it work.
Diez
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