MS Access library for python

You can use pypyodbc to easily create an empty Access MDB file on win32 platform, and also compact existing Access MDB files.

It can be as easy as:

import pypyodbc
pypyodbc.win_create_mdb( "D:\\Your_MDB_file_path.mdb" )

More over, as an dbi 2.0 ODBC library, pypyodbc is highly compatible with pyodbc, you can do SQL database queries like SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE with the library.

Here is the full Tutorial about pypyodbc's Access support.

Disclaimer: I'm the developer of pypyodbc.

Depending on what you want to do, pyodbc might be what you are looking for.

import pyodbc

def mdb_connect(db_file, user='admin', password = '', old_driver=False):
    driver_ver = '*.mdb'
    if not old_driver:
        driver_ver += ', *.accdb'

    odbc_conn_str = ('DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (%s)}'
                     ';DBQ=%s;UID=%s;PWD=%s' %
                     (driver_ver, db_file, user, password))

    return pyodbc.connect(odbc_conn_str)

conn = mdb_connect(r'''C:\x.mdb''')  # only absolute paths!

Note: you may download the freely-redistributable new-driver, if you don't have MSOffice installed.

I don't think win32 is hard. Try use its odbc module. Example of code working with ODBC and PostgreSQL database:

import odbc

def get_pg_ver(db_alias):
    connection = odbc.odbc(db_alias)
    try:
        cursor = connection.cursor()
        cursor.execute('SELECT version()')
        for row in cursor.fetchall():
            print row[0]
    finally:
        connection.close()

get_pg_ver('odbc_name/user/passwd')

This is very similar for every db driver I used in Python and Jython (I work with PostgreSQL, Oracle and Informix).