[Tutor] Intro for interfacing with Microsoft Access?

[Terry Carroll]

Does anyone know of any online resource that explains how to interface to 
Microsoft Access via Python, where the intended audience is someone who 
knows Python, but not the Microsoft innards?

I've found http://starship.python.net/crew/bwilk/access.html (which 
doesn't work for me, and presumably is out of date) and 
http://www.ecp.cc/pyado.html (which mostly works well enough, but assumes 
you know Microsoft's Data Access Objects (DAO), and points to the 
overwhelming Microsoft ADO API Reference.

I don't want to do anything too fancy, just read data from my database, 
make a few calculations and print some summaries obtained from it.  I know 
Python, but not Access (it's my company's DB, not mine) or DAO.