What do I need to read Microsoft Access databases using Python?

Question

How can I access Microsoft Access databases in Python? With SQL?

I\'d prefere a solution that works with Linux, but I could also settle for Windows.

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Answer 1

You've got what sounds like some good solutions. Another one that might be a bit closer to the "metal" than you'd like is MDB Tools.

MDB Tools is a set of open source libraries and utilities to facilitate exporting data from MS Access databases (mdb files) without using the Microsoft DLLs. Thus non Windows OSs can read the data. Or, to put it another way, they are reverse engineering the layout of the MDB file.

Also note that I doubt they've started working on ACCDB files and there is likely not going to be much request for that capability.