Reading DBF files with pyodbc

Question

In a project, I need to extract data from a Visual FoxPro database, which is stored in dbf files, y have a data directory with 539 files I need to take into account, each fi

Answer 1

I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but might still help. I've had lots of issues using ODBC with VFP databases and I've found it's often much easier treating the VFP tables as free tables when possible.

Using Yusdi Santoso's dbf.py and glob, here's some code to open each table in a directory and run through each record.

import glob
import os
import dbf

os.chdir("P:\\data")
for file in glob.glob("*.dbf"):
    table = dbf.readDbf(file)
    for row in table:
         #do stuff