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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject:  Re: Connecting to Access with Python from within Cygwin
Date:  Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:03:31 +0200
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* Robert Latest (Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:29:37 +0200)
> I've written a small script in a Windows Python envoronment. This
> script accesses an MS Access database using the win32 odbc module.
> These are involked using this line:
> 
> import odbc, dbi
> 
> However, I greatly prefer the Linux/X look and feel for development,
> so I'd like to use this script from within Cygwin. Unfortunately it
> doesn't work. I've tried copying the relevant modules from the
> Win32-Python installation into /usr/lib/..., but it doesn't work.

No surprise.
 
> I'm not really expecting it to work, either, because Cygwin after all
> wraps the win32 API into an UNIX-like API. But maybe there's a cheap
> trick to get it to wordk.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=odbc&submit=search

Thorsten


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