[SOLVED] Re: Firebird 1.5 and Python 3.4 - is this possible?

[Nagy László Zsolt]

To answer my own question:


- You can convert a firebird 1.5 database into 2.5 with this tool:
http://gsbelarus.com/gs/fdbconvert/fdbconvert_eng.html

- You can install firebird 2.5 instead of 1.5. Old BDE based program
will still work with it, because the Firebird 2.5 server can talk with a
1.5 client.

- The official fdb module (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb right now at
version 1.7) can be used from Python 3, and it works with Firebird 2.5

Problem solved!



>   Hi!
>
> I have an old HIS program written in Delphi. It uses Firebird 1.5
> database. I need to make an interface to exchange data with other
> healthcare providers. I do not want to do this in Delphi, that is
> ancient code. It is also not an option to rewrite the whole program from
> scratch. I just need to add a service that runs in the background and
> sends/receives data.
>
> Is it possible to somehow connect and use firebird 1.5 database from
> Python 3? I have tried kinterbasdb with no luck. There are a number of
> firebird libraries out there, but none of them seems to support firebird
> 1.5.
>
> Does anyone know a library that can do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Laszlo
>
>
>