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

In addition to bernie's response, I would add that it is possible to recover the schema of the database. The code below lists the tables (b[2] contains the name of the table).

con = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={};DBQ={};PWD={}'.format(DRV,MDB,PWD))
cur = con.cursor()

tables = list(cur.tables())

print 'tables'
for b in tables:
    print b

The code below lists all the columns from all the tables:

colDesc = list(cur.columns())