On 1:59 PM, Gary L Smith wrote:
Dear Pythoners,
I need to access data in an MS Access 2003 database using Python 2.5
or 2.6 running in Windows7. Windows7 doesn't seem to have appropriate
drivers for ODBC. My error messages consistently contain the phrase,
Data source name not found and no
Gary L Smith wrote:
I need to access data in an MS Access 2003 database using Python 2.5
or 2.6 running in Windows7. Windows7 doesn’t seem to have appropriate
drivers for ODBC. My error messages consistently contain the phrase,
“Data source name not found and no default driver
I think Tim's last suggestion is the way to go, and you should NOT need
ACCESS installed.
Microsoft invented ODBC.
Everybody saw it was a great idea and adopted it.
So Microsoft had to invent something even newer, which everybody else does
not support. That's called ADO. ADO defaults to ODBC
When I generate the interface file for a COM object using makepy, it
generates an incorrect signature for one of the methods:
def ReadTag(self, Name=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
pBuf=defaultNamedNotOptArg, nOS=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
nWords=defaultNamedNotOptArg):
return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(9,
