[DB-SIG] Clipper database?

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 07 Aug 2001 17:56:52 +0200


Bill Moore wrote:
> 
> Hi.  I'm new to Python and this list.  Has anyone written an interface to dBASE or Clipper tables?
> 

There is a .dbf file interface somewhere out there (search on python.org
or Parnassus). I think it only support reading the files though.

> I would like to be able to view field names and browse the contents of the data file.  Optionally, it would be nice to be able to actually lock a record and modify its contents.
> 

That should be possible by using mxODBC after having installed the
MSDAC kit from Microsoft (assuming you are using Windows). On Unix
things are not as nice, but I think that the unixODBC project
has written some ODBC drivers for file based databases which you 
could access using mxODBC as well.

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