"Jim Morcombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > This tutorial seems very specific to PythonWin IDE. > I haven't tried it, but it seems to imply that it uses stuff > from PythonWin IDE that may not be available in IDLE.
The IDE is just an IDE - editor and debugger etc. But the winall package is how you get access to the Windows libraries for COM/ADO etc You can download winall on top of standard python. You then have the choice of IDLE or Pythonwin as an IDE - I prefer Pythonwin. However if you don;t want to do that you can access Access via ODBC using the standard DBAPI for Python using SQL. That hasthe advantage that you get familiar with DBAPI which also works across Oracle, Informix, DB2 etc etc But if you want to do any kind of complex stuff with Windows then the winall package is pretty essential. And if you get seruious about programming Windows from Python the O'Reilly book by Mark Hammond is strongly recommended too - it's old now but still the best reference on Windows and Python. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
