Python - ODBC

References

• http://www.petersblog.org/node/847
• http://www.petersblog.org/node/844
• http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/303667
• http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-June/325341.html
• http://www.marknenadov.com/howto_odbcpy
• http://www.easysoft.com/developer/languages/python/mxodbc.html
• http://www.iodbc.org/
• http://www.iodbc.org/index.php?page=languages/python/odbc-pythonHOWTO
• http://pyodbc.sourceforge.net/
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/adodbapi/2.0
• http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/414879

• http://hex-dump.blogspot.com/2005/05/creating-odbc-data-source-using-python.html

• http://www.easysoft.com/products/data_access/
• http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/python/windows/win32/odbc.html

• http://www.freetds.org/

SQL Clients

• http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0312bhogal/index.html

Installing SquirrelSQL

$ java -jar !$
java -jar squirrel-sql-2.6.5a-install.jar

... and follow your nose ...

Examples

import ctypes

ODBC_ADD_DSN = 1        # Add data source
ODBC_CONFIG_DSN = 2     # Configure (edit) data source
ODBC_REMOVE_DSN = 3     # Remove data source
ODBC_ADD_SYS_DSN = 4    # add a system DSN
ODBC_CONFIG_SYS_DSN = 5 # Configure a system DSN
ODBC_REMOVE_SYS_DSN = 6 # remove a system DSN

def create_sys_dsn(driver, **kw):
    """Create a  system DSN
    Parameters:
        driver - ODBC driver name
        kw - Driver attributes
    Returns:
        0 - DSN not created
        1 - DSN created
    """
    nul = chr(0)
    attributes = []
    for attr in kw.keys():
        attributes.append("%s=%s" % (attr, kw[attr]))
    
    return ctypes.windll.ODBCCP32.SQLConfigDataSource(0, ODBC_ADD_SYS_DSN, driver, nul.join(attributes))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print create_sys_dsn("SQL Server",SERVER="(local)", DESCRIPTION="SQL Server DSN", DSN="SQL SERVER DSN", Database="mydatabase", Trusted_Connection="Yes")
    print create_sys_dsn("mySQL",SERVER="local", DESCRIPTION="mySQL Server Test1", DSN="mySQL DSN", DATABASE="mySQLDb", UID="username", PASSWORD="password", PORT="3306", OPTION="3")