[Tutor] python and MS Access db's

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 01:34  PM, dman wrote:
> > MS' ODBC driver to connect to the db, and then use either XML-RPC or
> > CORBA to connect to that server from the linux box.
> 
> if you don't mind my asking, why you are planning to 
> use XML-RPC over SOAP.

I should imagine because its a lot simpler to use - especially 
from Python. I haven't seen a really easy to use SOAP solution 
for Python but the XML-RPC stuff(now standard from v2.2?) is 
simplicity itself.

Speaking for dman so I might be completely wrong! :-)

Alan g
[ Who hates XML as a transport since its horribly 
  inefficient of bandwidth...but recognises that 
  he's(as usual) in a minority of one! ;-]