Hello Chris, > Is it possible to retrieve details about the database, specifically a > list of the tables in the database; and then to retrieve the columns > and their types for the tables? > > Is this dependant on the database? Yes and Yes. However some toolkits like SQLObject (http://www.sqlobject.org/) and SQLAlchemy (http://www.sqlalchemy.org/) can do this work for you (IIRC).
HTH, Miki http://pythonwise.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
