lialie wrote: [... snip slightly confused indication that reading back a binary item using GetChunk appears to double its length ...]
Well I don't know why this should be happening, but I do at least have a few suggestions: 1) Try using ADODB.Stream instead of GetChunk etc. 2) Try using the adodbapi dbapi-compliant wrapper 3) Try using ODBC (via PyODBC, CeODBC etc.) I've no idea if any of these will do any better but at least it gives you some possibilities :) TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list