DBF (VFP) to XLS (Excel) in pure Python

kirby.urner at gmail.com kirby.urner at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 11:30:24 EST 2010


On Dec 1, 10:28 pm, "kirby.ur... at gmail.com" <kirby.ur... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Playing around with arcane tools to read those pesky DBF files (with
> memo fields), like floating wine barrels cast off the sinking VFP
> ship.
>

Although it's true I don't know that I'm getting "in memory"
DBF reads, the bulk of the time in the code I just shared is
in the "writing to XLS" inner loop.

Looking to a different solution for writing, perhaps a DLL
available for $ (one time).

Been reading more about VFP, Silverlight and HTML5.  Python
seems in a good position.  All caught up on IronPython now too.

Kirby



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