Question

I have a Firebird DB set up on my computer and I want to be able to retrieve data from a different computer. What is the best way to go about this?

I am running windows and using python.

Answer 1

• Install firebird client to the client pc
• To connect firebird programmaticaly from python you should install a python Firebird driver.

For Python 2.x, you can use kinterbasdb. This is the legacy driver and I think it is not actively developed but only maintained.

To connect windows based server database from kinterbasdb you can use

Import kinterbasdb as k
k.init(type_conv = 300) #
con = k.connect(dsn='127.0.0.1:c:\\db\\test.fdb', user='sysdba', password='masterkey', charset='YOUR_CHARSET', dialect=3)

Of course you should adjust connection parameters according to your system. Kinterbasdb documentation is here

If you want use an ORM, you can use SqlAlchemy which uses kinterbasdb for Firebird Support

For Python 3k you can use pyfirebirdsql which also supports Python 2.5+ and under active development, but not supported by SqlAlchemy yet.