On 2007-08-03 17:23, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using python win32 extentions.
>
> I get connected via odbc to a database files that are sitting in the folder.
>
> import dbi,odbc
> db=odbc.odbc('dbfiles')
> cursor=db.cursor()
> cursor.execute('select * from tableabcd')
> print cursor.description
>
> This way I am able to find column names.
> How do i find a available table names? I have 20 tables available to
> me. How do I list their names??
With the old odbc module this is not possible without knowing
the database internals.
mxODBC has a .tables() catalog method which makes this kind
of introspection easy across all database backends:
.tables(qualifier=None, owner=None, table=None, type=None)
Catalog method which generates a result set having the
following schema...
See page 56 in the documentation for details on the schema:
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/mxODBC.pdf
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