""" db_print.py -- a simple demo for ADO database reads.""" from __future__ import with_statement #needed for Python 2.5 import sys import adodbapi.ado_consts as adc cmd_args = ('proxy_host', 'proxy_port', 'filename', 'table_name') if 'help' in sys.argv: print(('possible settings keywords are:',cmd_args)) sys.exit() kw_args = {} # pick up filename and proxy address from command line (optionally) for arg in sys.argv: s = arg.split("=") if len(s) > 1: if s[0] in cmd_args: kw_args[s[0]] = s[1] kw_args.setdefault('filename', "test.mdb") # assumes server is running from examples folder kw_args.setdefault('table_name', 'Products') # the name of the demo table # the server needs to select the provider based on his Python installation provider_switch = ['provider', 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0', "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"] # ------------------------ START HERE ------------------------------------- #create the connection constr = "Provider=%(provider)s;Data Source=%(filename)s" if 'proxy_host' in kw_args: import adodbapi.remote as db else: import adodbapi as db con = db.connect(constr, kw_args, macro_is64bit=provider_switch) if kw_args['table_name'] == '?': print('The tables in your database are:') for name in con.get_table_names(): print(name) else: #make a cursor on the connection with con.cursor() as c: #run an SQL statement on the cursor sql = 'select * from %s' % kw_args['table_name'] print(('performing query="%s"' % sql)) c.execute(sql) #check the results print(('result rowcount shows as= %d. (Note: -1 means "not known")' \ % (c.rowcount,))) print('') print('result data description is:') print(' NAME Type DispSize IntrnlSz Prec Scale Null?') for d in c.description: print((('%16s %-12s %8s %8d %4d %5d %s') % \ (d[0], adc.adTypeNames[d[1]], d[2], d[3], d[4],d[5], bool(d[6])))) print('') print('str() of first five records are...') #get the results db = c.fetchmany(5) #print them for rec in db: print(rec) print('') print('repr() of next row is...') print((repr(c.fetchone()))) print('') con.close()