Take the 2-minute tour ×  Is there a way to access a JET
database from Python? I'm on Linux. All I found was a .mdb
viewer in the repositories, but it's very faulty. Thanks
share|improve this question possible duplicate of
stackoverflow.com/questions/256459/… –  Roberto Liffredo Apr 1
'10 at 10:31 Or stackoverflow.com/questions/853370/… –  Remou
Apr 2 '10 at 18:39 add comment  4 Answers  MDB Tools is a set of
open source libraries and utilities to facilitate exporting data
from MS Access databases (mdb files) without using the Microsoft
DLLs. Thus non Windows OSs can read the data. Or, to put it
another way, they are reverse engineering the layout of the MDB
file.  Jackcess is a pure Java library for reading from and
writing to MS Access databases. It is part of the OpenHMS
project from Health Market Science, Inc. . It is not an
application. There is no GUI. It's a library, intended for other
developers to use to build Java applications.   Both Jackcess
and ACCESSdb are much newer than MDB tools, are more ac