The pure Jython (Python in the JVM) JDBC dbapi pep-249 driver, jyjdbc 0.0.3 is now available from: http://code.google.com/p/jyjdbc/ Main high light is that it can now be used as a drop in replacement for zxJDBC in most existing applications by simply replacing: from com.ziclix.python.sql import zxJDBC with: import jyjdbc as zxJDBC Chris