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

Personally, I have never been able to get MDB Tools (along with related ODBC stuff like unixODBC) to work properly with Python or PHP under Linux, even after numerous attempts. I just tried the instructions in the other answer to this question here and all I got was "Segmentation fault (core dumped)".

However, I did get the UCanAccess JDBC driver to read both .mdb and .accdb files on Linux from either Jython or CPython+JayDeBeApi. For detailed instructions on how I set it up under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS see my other answer here.