Thursday, March 21, 2013

PyODBC for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X

By Vasudev Ram

PyODBC is like the odbc module in the Standard Python library, but claims to work on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. I've used the odbc module from the stdlib earlier. Using it is straightforward for basic CRUD-type usage.

PyODBC is supposed to "implement the Python Database API Specification v2.0, but additional features have been added to simplify database programming even more." I am trying out PyODBC (have taken an initial look at the examples, seems similar to the stdlib odbc module) and will report on it a little later.

ODBC on Wikipedia.

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises


3 comments:

Ben Rousch said...

I've had better luck with pure-Python PyPyODBC than with PyODBC. https://code.google.com/p/pypyodbc/

Vasudev Ram said...

Thanks, will check out pypyodbc.

Vasudev Ram said...

Thanks! Will check out pypyodbc.