dBase in Python, sorta?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat May 17 00:27:02 EDT 2003


In article <ba3136$t54$1 at mailgate2.lexis-nexis.com>,
rzed <Dick.Zantow at lexisnexis.com> wrote:
>
>Is there an existing Python-based product or package that fills the
>ecological niche that dBase once filled? That is, something with a
>database backend, some data management utilities, a convenient forms
>and reports generator ... runnable on Win2k (for my sins)? Does anyone
>here use such a package? Any recommendations?

There's no one package, but you can probably roll your own fairly easily
using any of the backends, PythonCard, and ReportLab.
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