Josh wrote: > We have a program written in VB6 (over 100,000 lines of code and > 230 UI screens) that we want to get out of VB and into a better > language. The program is over 10 years old and has already been > ported from VB3 to VB6, a job which took over two years. We would > like to port it to Python, but we need to continue to offer > upgrades and fixes to the current VB6 version. Does anybody know of > ways we could go about rewriting this, one screen at a time, in > Python, and calling the screens from the existing program? > > We are also looking for a graphics toolkit to use. IronPython with > it's .NET bindings and ability to integrate with Visual Studio > looks good, but leaves that bad MS taste in the mouth. > > We currently use a MS Access back end and need to migrate to a > proper SQL server. We need to leave options open for SQL Server > (for customers who want to use existing infrastructure) and > something like MySQL or PostgreSQL. But in the mean time, we need > to be able to access an MSAccess (Jet) database from Python. > > Any answers/suggestions/pointers are greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Josh Isted
For the Database, you should use the SQLObject(sqlobject.org) module. Nic -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list