Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
This is perfect if the python ODBC driver can read the .mdb without the need for it to be running elsewhere. Thanks all for your help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
On Thu, 20 May 2010 02:45:10 -0700 (PDT), Jimoid jimmy.cul...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: I've now had a closer look at both pyODBC and mxODBC and it seems to me that they both require the database to be running to be able to query it. Is this correct? If you mean that an instance of MS Access has to be running, no, I don't think so. The ODBC driver for Access databases knows how to open .mdb files itself. I've done this myself recently, and it seems to work fine without having Access running anywhere. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 22:58 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 20 May 2010 02:45:10 -0700 (PDT), Jimoid jimmy.cul...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: I've now had a closer look at both pyODBC and mxODBC and it seems to me that they both require the database to be running to be able to query it. Is this correct? If so I think I will have to use mdb-* as the database I want to query is not running. To my knowledge, all ODBC modules (in any language) rely upon a DBMS specific driver. Correct (of course, so does DB-API if you are using a 'native' Python connection). Where the DB-API definition defines the common Python side of a database interface, ODBC defines a common OS-level interface to the DBMS, using a named driver (driver specified in the connection string or, for Windows, externally with the connection string specifying the connection definition) There is no distinction between how ODBC operates on Windows or LINUX. Both use the same connection strings [provided the drivers have the same names]. to translate ODBC calls into actual DBMS calls. Yes, just like a DB-API provider, except that the 'translation' happens in the ODBC driver. -- Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org LPIC-1, Novell CLA http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
Thanks to all for your helpful suggestions. So far I have installed and played around with mdbtools, and it appears that I can use this from the shell to extract the information I need, e.g. mdb-export for dumping an entire table or mdb-sql to run a query. I am also interested by mxODBC and pyodbc as these seem to be python only solutions, so could be useful for platform independent python solutions (it may be that my programme will be used by some Windows users, if it is successful). To give it a bit of context, I am extracting data from the on-board flight planning software from an aerial survey plane (the Access database). I will extract the GPS data for each image taken so that I can then georeference the images. Cheers, Jimmy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
I've now had a closer look at both pyODBC and mxODBC and it seems to me that they both require the database to be running to be able to query it. Is this correct? If so I think I will have to use mdb-* as the database I want to query is not running. Cheers, Jimmy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
On 19 May 2010 10:28:15 UTC+1, Jimoid jimmy.cul...@gmail.com wrote: I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003 database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few columns of data from some tables. mxODBC might well be what you are looking for, -- Cheers, Simon B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
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Subject: Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
On 19 May 2010 10:28:15 UTC+1, Jimoid jimmy.cul...@gmail.com wrote:
I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in
Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003
database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few
columns of data from some tables.
mxODBC might well be what you are looking for,
--
Cheers,
Simon B.
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Or you can use pyodbc
DBfile = '/path/*.mdb
conn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver
(*.mdb)};DBQ='+DBfile, autocommit=True)
cursor = conn.cursor()
Thanks
Shakir
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Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
Jimoid wrote: I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003 database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few columns of data from some tables. this worked like a charm for me: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/528868-extraction-and-manipulation-class-for-microsoft-ac/ Les -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 08:05 -0400, Les Schaffer wrote: Jimoid wrote: I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003 database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few columns of data from some tables. this worked like a charm for me: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/528868-extraction-and-manipulation-class-for-microsoft-ac/ The OP: I use Ubuntu 64 bit Does something that contains import win32com.client work on anything other than Windows? -- Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org LPIC-1, Novell CLA http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 02:28 -0700, Jimoid wrote: Hi All, I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003 database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few columns of data from some tables. Google hasn't been able to offer me a suitable solution to this Google is a poor way to look for such things. It is better to go to Freshmeat / SourceForge or PyPI directly. Try http://freshmeat.net/search?q=microsoft+accesssubmit=Search mdbtools is your best bet unless you are willing to pay for the EasySoft drivers. I've had mixed success with mdbtools; if all you need to do is extract data their ODBC driver will probably work. If you are willing to use Jython (Python on the JVM) you have a *lot* more options for this kind of thing. problem, and although there are some references to this problem in the archives of this group, they are mainly very old and I wonder if there is anything more recent that members could suggest to me? Python would be my language of choice, however if someone has any other suggestions then I'm open to ideas. -- Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org LPIC-1, Novell CLA http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: The OP: I use Ubuntu 64 bit woops, my bad ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
