On Feb 1, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> Here are two Python module with read/write on dbase files:
> http://dbfpy.sourceforge.net/
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbf/0.88.16
Remember that some of these programs are limited to Fox 2.x format, and
even the latter link you cited is limited to VFP 6 format, which is probably a
decade old by now. Many don't support .FPT memos, and I don't know any that
support .CDX indices.
I've conversed with several of the authors of Python-DBF apps over the
years, and for most of them, they were simply a way of getting legacy data out
of either dBase or Fox 2.x applications. They were certainly not intended to be
an active interface to allow you to create apps that dynamically work with DBFs.
If you're trying to support a database system that both Fox apps and
Dabo apps can access, your best bet is to convert the data to a real database
server, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, both of which VFP can work with easily.
Using DBFs is simply not a good idea outside of Fox itself.
-- Ed Leafe
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