Re: Accessing MDB files on Windows

2005-01-20 Thread David Fraser
Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho wrote: Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho, Quarta 19 Janeiro 2005 14:25, wrote: Thanks! I'm looking at it. Worked like a charm! And just now I noticed who's the author of the recipe ;-) You may also be interested in using a DB-API compatible driver for ADO - see for example http://

Re: Accessing MDB files on Windows

2005-01-19 Thread Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho
Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho, Quarta 19 Janeiro 2005 15:17, wrote: > Hmmm... I see. I'm trying to avoid having to install external modules > at > my client's server. Should I use, given that both DAO and ODBC are > available with the win32all extensions, DAO or ODBC? > > Or would ADO give me so muc

Re: Accessing MDB files on Windows

2005-01-19 Thread Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho
Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho, Quarta 19 Janeiro 2005 14:25, wrote: > Thanks! I'm looking at it. Worked like a charm! And just now I noticed who's the author of the recipe ;-) Thanks! -- Godoy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Accessing MDB files on Windows

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Holden
Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho wrote: Larry Bates, Quarta 19 Janeiro 2005 14:01, wrote: I'm assuming the application will be run on Windows. You're right. It will be run on Windows. I discarded some other platform due to the difficulty of supporting this file format. You can use ODBC or DAO. An DAO

Re: Accessing MDB files on Windows

2005-01-19 Thread Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho
Steve Holden, Quarta 19 Janeiro 2005 14:38, wrote: > Note that DAO is a very old library, and nowadays ADO would probably be > the preferred method in the Windows environment (can DAO even *use* > oledb providers?). ADO libraries are available - see > >http://www.markcarter.me.uk/computing/py

Re: Accessing MDB files on Windows

2005-01-19 Thread Larry Bates
I'm assuming the application will be run on Windows. You can use ODBC or DAO. An DAO solution that I wrote (and use) can be found at: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/303349 For ODBC you would just use the standard library module. Larry Bates Syscon, Inc. Jorge Luiz Godoy Fil

RE: Accessing MDB files on Windows

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Brewer
Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho wrote: > What is the best way to deal with MDB files? I was thinking on using > ODBC... I'll need to read and write some information to it. The load > won't be so high, but there might be a lot of data. > > Any advices? Will my approach work? I'm not a Windows guy... :

Re: Accessing MDB files on Windows

2005-01-19 Thread Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho
Larry Bates, Quarta 19 Janeiro 2005 14:01, wrote: > I'm assuming the application will be run on Windows. You're right. It will be run on Windows. I discarded some other platform due to the difficulty of supporting this file format. > You can use ODBC or DAO. > > An DAO solution that I wrote

Accessing MDB files on Windows

2005-01-19 Thread Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho
Hi, What is the best way to deal with MDB files? I was thinking on using ODBC... I'll need to read and write some information to it. The load won't be so high, but there might be a lot of data. Any advices? Will my approach work? I'm not a Windows guy... :-) -- Godoy. <[EMAIL PROTEC