A Python module that makes it easy to use Microsoft ADO for connecting with databases and other data sources. 

Features:

• 100% DB-API 2.0 compliant.

• Includes pyunit testcases that describes how to use the module. 

• Fully implemented in Python.

• Licensed under the LGPL license, which means that it can be used freely even in commercial programs subject to certain restrictions.

Project page:

• Read more here.

• Guilty Party (a.k.a. new project leader): Vernon Cole

Prerequisites:

• Python 2.3 or higher.

• Mark Hammond's pywin32 python for windows extensions. Since pywin32 release 211, adodbapi is included, so you do not need to download it separately.

• If you want to run the test cases: An installation of Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL Server.

Download:

The latest release may also be found here .

adodbapi will also be available for Iron Python shortly.

Mailing Lists:

The old adodbapi mailing lists are dead.

If you want to discuss or participate in developing adodbapi, subscribe to the pywin32 mailing list.

Thanks:

Original Author Henrik Ekelund.

Contribute:

Please send bug reports (preferably failing test cases), improvements and comments to the developers mailing list.

Links:

Information about connectionstrings can be found here.

The Python database SIG and related mailing list is here.

eGenix provides a high preformance commercial alternative if you want to use ODBC rather than ADO/OLE-DB.

Other database interfaces can be found here.