For those of you who need to access FoxPro/dBase DBF files in your Dabo or Python projects, here is some information I recently posted to the Profox mailing list.
I believe that most of these options are designed for importing DBF data into other databases vs. using DBF as a production database backend. In this light, note that some of these options may only provide read-only access to DBF files. "John Machin" <[email protected]> and "Ethan Furman" <[email protected]> have written DBF modules. There's a short recipe to read/write Xbase/FoxPro DBF files (without memo support) http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/362715 dbfpy (by [email protected]) also claims DBF support http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=dbf&submit=search Python dBase 0.84.18 (may be related to one of the above?) http://groups.google.com/group/python-dbase Another Python module that reads Visual FoxPro DBF file (with memo support) http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/santoso/Software.Repository.html Finally, there's also the option of using ODBC to interface to DBF files. I believe there are 3rd party ODBC implementations for the Mac and Linux. http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/ Malcolm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] 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/[email protected]
