On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:46:02 pm Simon Cropper wrote: > Hi, > > Just starting to play with Dabo App Wizard. > > Does anyone know how to make this work on dbase or VFP files directly? > > I know that files can be imported to SQLLite but some of these files are > associated with spatial data in ESRI Shapefiles (that is, I can't change > them). > > Essentially Shapefiles store all their attribute data in Dbase III > format. External packages can readily access these files IF they don't > change the file structure, field names or change the code page. I can > access these files via VFP, at a pinch, if I want to manipulate the data > in a way the GIS package does not allow. > > As an introductory trial I was looking at making a simple > point-open-edit dbase file editor. Just a simple file browser/editor to > replace VFP on Ubuntu. > > It seems the AppWizard (a) does not support xbase files, and (b) the > resulting applications are hard wired. > > The dGrid control looks promising but I need a way of > seeing/querying/editing the dbase files, so I am pushed back to the need > for an OS independent driver/odbc. > > Johnf had indicated that several modules exist to allow python to access > dbase files but I have not found any that allow editing (the only one he > actually pointed to allowed importation into Postgre).
Here are two Python module with read/write on dbase files: http://dbfpy.sourceforge.net/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbf/0.88.16 -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/201102011711.02480.adrian.kla...@gmail.com
