dbase module

[Ken Kinder]

Let me know how that goes. dbfeader did work well enough for my current
program, but I'd be interested to see its development. Unfortunately, the one
I'm working on isn't for a SQL database or anything. It's a data-merge that
queries several databases (xbase, flatfile, and SQL) and joins them into a CSV
file.

Randall Embry wrote:

> Ken,
>
> I'm developing a module to read/write simple xbase files, and would be
> interested in your findings, or happy to provide my system to you once
> it is stable. Initially, my system is intended to inject data from an
> xbase file into a Postgres table; however, there should be a fairly complete
> programmer's interface and connecting to a SQL based system other than
> Postgres should be trivial... I expect the reading functionality to be
> production quality within a week, and haven't set a deadline for the writing
> capability, yet.
>
> good luck,
>
> --Randall
>
> In article <mailman.972511512.22632.python-list at python.org> you write:
> >When looking for a module to read dbase files, I found
> >
> >    http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~lmariusg/download/python/dbfreader.py
> >
> >I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions for importing dbase
> >data.
> >
> >