I would like to announce the first release of PyODB a Python unixODBC API binding. PyODB is a Python module and provides a simplified set of bindings to unixODBC (http://www.unixodbc.org) allowing fast and easy development of open database applications. The module supports multiple database connections using a connection class and two methods execute() and fetch() to handle SQL queries. Disconnection from the database is automatic using the class destructor. My main aim in producing this software was to hide the complexities of the ODBC C API from the programmer and so simplify application development. I imagine this might appeal to people providing dynamic content on a web server or anyone who wished to experiment with ODBC in developing small applications. The software has been developed on a Linux environment using Python 2.3 and SWIG (http://www.swig.org). The module has been tested on Linux and Solaris platforms using databases PostgreSQL and Informix, but should work on any platform supporting unixODBC and an ODBC database driver. To download the release visit https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyodb Regards, Neil Moses