I would like to announce release 0.8 of PyODB. This adds a feature request to allow connections directly to the ODBC database driver using connection strings. 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 data source connections with the following connection methods; execute(), fetch(), disconnect(), begin(), commit() and rollback(). The software has been developed on a Linux environment using Python 2.x and SWIG (http://www.swig.org). The module has been tested on Linux and Solaris platforms using databases MySQL, Informix and PostgreSQL but in theory should work on any platform supporting unixODBC and an ODBC database driver. To download the release visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyodb Regards, Neil Moses