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

[John Nagle]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> 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

    What MDBtools did you install?  The RPM, a checkout from CVS,
or the downloadable distribution?  They're all different.

				John Nagle