Accessing a JET (.mdb) database in Python

Question

Is there a way to access a JET database from Python? I\'m on Linux. All I found was a .mdb viewer in the repositories, but it\'s very faulty. Thanks

Answer 1

If you build the CVS version of mdb-tools, it works rather well. It fixed a lot of issues I had trying to use the one in the repositories related to memo field size. mdb-tools is basically a dead project, but people have still been occasionally contributing code to the CVS. The build in Ubuntu is from 2004 I think.

CVS instructions here:

http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=cvs&group_id=2294

If using Ubuntu, before downloading the sources you'll want to enable source repositories and do:

apt-get build-dep mdbtools

That will get the required packages you'll need to manually build the sources from CVS.