[egenix-users] Windows ODBC drivers?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

stuff at mailzilla.net wrote:
> Is there an mx.ODBC.Windows (or alternative Python) method to obtain a 
> list of installed ODBC drivers on a Windows systems?  The DataSources() 
> is somewhat useful for connecting to previously defined ODBC sources, but 
> if a source is yet to be defined, there won't be an entry here, even if 
> the driver is installed.  
> 
> The Windows ODBC Data Source Admin Tool provides a list of drivers (on the
> "Drivers" tab), I just don't know how to get this information from Python.

There is an ODBC API for this, but it's currently not exposed
via mxODBC.

I suppose you could use the Python tools for querying the registry
to find out about installed drivers.

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