dbfkit

DBF classes and utilities. For humans

• Free software: Apache license
• Documentation: http://dbfkit.readthedocs.org.

Features

• Console Scripts:

  • dbf2csv: Export a DBF file to csv (utf-8 encoding)

• Classes:

  • DBFUtils: Read a DBF and exposes as a csv file

How to use it

As a Console script:

$ dbf2csv --help
Usage: dbf2csv [OPTIONS] INPUTFILE [OUTPUT]

  Convert a DBF file to csv on desired output (stdout by default)

Options:
  -c, --codepage TEXT  Use specific codepage, if not supplied, use the table's
                       codepage
  --version            Show the version and exit.
  --help               Show this message and exit.

As a module:

from dbfkit import DBFUtils
from cStringIO import StringIO

stream = StringIO()
records = DBFUtils.tocsv("data/catalogo.dbf", output=stream)
print("Records: {records}".format(records=records))
print(stream.getvalue())

Credits

• Ethan Furman, author of dbf module for python: http://pythonhosted.org/dbf/
• Armin Ronacher, author of click an excellent python package to create full beautiful command line interfaces: http://click.pocoo.org/