[DB-SIG] dbf files and compact indices

[Carl Karsten]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Vernon Cole wrote:
>>
>> Ethan:
>> I cannot see where you mentioned your operating system, I am assuming
>> Windows.
>>
>> Perhaps you have already investigated this ... I have no way to test it
>> ... but you might try:
>> ADO can access almost any data source, and a quick look seems to show that
>> .dbf is supported using the JET driver or a FoxPro driver.
>>
>> 1) upload pywin32
>> 2) import adodbapi
>> 3) find an appropriate connection string for your data source
>> http://connectionstrings.com suggests that perhaps:
>> Driver={Microsoft Visual FoxPro
>> Driver};SourceType=DBF;SourceDB=c:\myvfpdbfolder;Exclusive=No;
>> Collate=Machine;NULL=NO;DELETED=NO;BACKGROUNDFETCH=NO;
>> may be a good sample to start with -- there are other variations, check
>> their site.
>> 4) do your data input/output using standard Python db-api calls.
>>
>> see python\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\test\ for usage examples
>>
>> You can get pywin32 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't want to be tied to Foxpro, which
> means I need to be able to parse these files directly.  I have the dbf
> files, now I need the idx and cdx files.


What do you mean "tied" ?

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Carl K