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> Il giorno mercoledì 15 luglio 2009 18:30:29 UTC+2, John Machin ha scritto:

>> If dbfpy can't handle any new-fangled stuff you may have in your
>> files, drop me a line ... I have a soon-to-be released DBF module that
>> should be able to read the "new" stuff up to dBase7 and VFP9,
>> including memo files, conversion from whatever to Unicode if
>> needed, ...

Or you can use my dbf module [1] which has been in the wild for several 
years now and is fairly robust instead of waiting for John's module 
which has been in the "soon to be released" category for nearly as long.

--
~Ethan~

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbf