Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> John Nagle schrieb:
>
>> I'm looking for something that can read .MDB files, the format
>> Microsoft Access uses, from Python. I need to do this on
>> Linux, without using Microsoft tools. I just need to read
>> the files once, so I can load the tables into another database.
>> Speed isn't an issue, and I don't need to access the file in
>> database fashion. The files are too big to read into RAM all at once,
>> though.
>>
>> I tried "MDBtools", but the only (last) release was
>> a pre-release three years ago, and I've encountered
>> many build problems trying to make it work on Fedora
>> Core 6.
>
>
> I was just gonna suggest it. Under ubuntu, it works easy as cake, and
> converts the mdb nicely to some CSV-files.
>
> I think you should really try and make it work.
>
> Diez
What MDBtools did you install? The RPM, a checkout from CVS,
or the downloadable distribution? They're all different.
John Nagle
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