how to deal with .mdb access files with python

Question

Can someone point me in the right direction on how to open a .mdb file in python? I normally like including some code to start off a discussion, but I don\'t know where to s

Answer 1

There's the meza library by Reuben Cummings which can read Microsoft Access databases through mdbtools.

Installation

# The mdbtools package for Python deals with MongoDB, not MS Access. 
# So install the package through `apt` if you're on Debian/Ubuntu
$ sudo apt install mdbtools
$ pip install meza

Usage

>>> from meza import io

>>> records = io.read('database.mdb') # only file path, no file objects
>>> print(next(records))

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