Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database

[Gregory Ewing]

>>On Thu, 20 May 2010 02:45:10 -0700 (PDT), Jimoid
>><jimmy.cullen at gmail.com> declaimed the following in
>>gmane.comp.python.general:
>>
>>>I've now had a closer look at both pyODBC and mxODBC and it seems to
>>>me that they both require the database to be running to be able to
>>>query it. Is this correct?

If you mean that an instance of MS Access has to be running,
no, I don't think so. The ODBC driver for Access databases
knows how to open .mdb files itself. I've done this myself
recently, and it seems to work fine without having Access
running anywhere.

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Greg