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Kyle Swanson
Kyle Swanson

Reputation: 103

Opening .DBF files as read-only with the dbf Python module

First of all, the dbf module is great. I've been using it with great success.

I'm trying to open a dbf file on a network share which is a read-only file system. When I try to open it like this, I get an error which says that the .dbf file is read-only. 

thisTable = dbf.Table('/volumes/readOnlyVolume/thisFile.dbf')
thisTable.open()

Looking at the documentation, it looks like there's a way to open a table in read-only mode, but I can't figure it out. If you have a second, would you be able to help me out?

Thanks! Kyle

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1942

Answers (2)

Ethan Furman
Ethan Furman

Reputation: 69288

Cool, thanks! :)

At this point, you need to specify the open mode when you call thisTable.open(), like this:

thisTable.open(mode='read-only')

or

thisTable.open(mode=dbf.READ_ONLY)

Oh, and here's the PyPI link to the module.

Upvotes: 5

hd1
hd1

Reputation: 34677

Assuming you're using this module, the magic incantation to open read only is:

dbf1 = Dbf()
dbf1.openFile('county.dbf', readOnly=1)

Hope that helped, if not, do add more detail to your question.

Upvotes: 0

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