How to access the MDB database via Python script in Linux

This article mainly introduces the method of accessing the MDB database through Python script in Linux, this article is based on the Linux system of the Debian Department, the friend who needs it can refer to the

In the Linux system to connect the MDB database, directly connected, the MDB default driver does not recognize the non-Windows path, so you can not use the normal connection method

Driver={microsoft Access DRIVER (*.mdb)};D Bq=c:dirfile.mdb

Installation

Here we need to use some libraries to implement the third party driver

We need to install these packages: Mdbtools, UNIXODBC, LIBMDBODBC

If you are not able to find Libmdbodbc in a deb-enabled system, add the following path to the list of software sources

Deb Http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian Squeeze Main

LIBMDBODBC can be installed after the source is updated

Configuration

After installing the required packages, you need to do some configuration to support the LIBMDBODBC driver

The code is as follows:

/etc/odbcinst.ini

[MDBTOOLSODBC]

Description = MDB Tools ODBC

Driver =/usr/lib/libmdbodbc.so.0

Setup =

FileUsage =

CPTimeout =

Cpreuse =

/etc/odbc.ini or ~/.odbc.ini.

The code is as follows:

[Test]

Description = Microsoft Access Try DB

Driver = Mdbtoolsodbc

Database =/path/to/mdb/file/test.mdb

Servername = localhost

Username =

Password =

Port = 5432

Code

Once the data source is configured, it can be used in any application that supports ODBC access, as an example of PYODBC

#-*-coding:utf-8-*- Import Pyodbc  conn = Pyodbc.connect (' dsn=test ');  cursor = Conn.cursor () cursor.execute (' select * from ' province ') for row in Cursor.fetchall (): Print row. Name

Note: If the operation name of the Chinese table or field, you need to include it in double quotes, otherwise there will be errors, of course, the table name into Chinese so two of the practice, or not recommended use of the

Pyodbc is a very good library, the API is also very useful, but not good for Chinese support, it does not default to Unicode processing data, so for Chinese-related applications, coding problems everywhere, had to slowly toss.