Dbase Connection

Paddy McCarthy paddy3118 at netscape.net
Sun Sep 5 05:30:19 EDT 2004


"Stan Cook" <scook at elp.rr.com> wrote in message news:<3Jp_c.15967$Xi.2705 at fe1.texas.rr.com>...
> Does anyone know how or what I can use to open, read and extract data from a
> dbase database?  I haven't found anything of much use with accompanying
> documentation.

Open Office can open DBase files, and Open Office has Python
scripting.

Googling for dbf2csv gives many hits. If you can use one of those
programs then you could use the excellent CSV Python module in
processing the resultant csv file.

Hope it helps,  Paddy.



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