# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ This is a DBF reader which reads Visual Fox Pro DBF format with Memo field. Usage: rec = readDbf('test.dbf') for line in rec: print line['name'] @author Yusdi Santoso @date 13/07/2007 http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/santoso/Software.Repository.html page says code is "available as is without any warranty or support". """ import struct import os, os.path import sys import csv import tempfile import ConfigParser class Dbase: def __init__(self): self.fdb = None self.fmemo = None self.db_data = None self.memo_data = None self.fields = None self.num_records = 0 self.header = None self.memo_file = '' self.memo_header = None self.memo_block_size = 0 self.memo_header_len = 0 def _drop_after_NULL(self, txt): for i in range(0, len(txt)): if ord(struct.unpack('c', txt[i])[0])==0: return txt[:i] return txt def _reverse_endian(self, num): if not len(num): return 0 val = struct.unpack('L', val[0]) val = struct.unpack('>L', val) return val[0] def _assign_ids(self, lst, ids): result = {} idx = 0 for item in lst: id = ids[idx] result[id] = item idx += 1 return result def open(self, db_name): filesize = os.path.getsize(db_name) if filesize <= 68: raise IOError, 'The file is not large enough to be a dbf file' self.fdb = open(db_name, 'rb') self.memo_file = '' if os.path.isfile(db_name[0:-1] + 't'): self.memo_file = db_name[0:-1] + 't' elif os.path.isfile(db_name[0:-3] + 'fpt'): self.memo_file = db_name[0:-3] + 'fpt' if self.memo_file: #Read memo file self.fmemo = open(self.memo_file, 'rb') self.memo_data = self.fmemo.read() self.memo_header = self._assign_ids(struct.unpack('>6x1H', self.memo_data[:8]), ['Block size']) block_size = self.memo_header['Block size'] if not block_size: block_size = 512 self.memo_block_size = block_size self.memo_header_len = block_size memo_size = os.path.getsize(self.memo_file) #Start reading data file data = self.fdb.read(32) self.header = self._assign_ids(struct.unpack(' self.num_records: raise Exception, 'Unable to extract data outside the range' offset = self.header['Record Size'] * rec_no data = self.db_data[offset:offset+self.row_len] record = self._assign_ids(struct.unpack(self.row_format, data), self.row_ids) if self.memo_file: for key in self.fields: field = self.fields[key] f_type = field['Field Type'] f_name = field['Field Name'] c_data = record[f_name] if f_type=='M' or f_type=='G' or f_type=='B' or f_type=='P': c_data = self._reverse_endian(c_data) if c_data: record[f_name] = self.read_memo(c_data-1).strip() else: record[f_name] = c_data.strip() return record def read_memo_record(self, num, in_length): """ Read the record of given number. The second parameter is the length of the record to read. It can be undefined, meaning read the whole record, and it can be negative, meaning at most the length """ if in_length < 0: in_length = -self.memo_block_size offset = self.memo_header_len + num * self.memo_block_size self.fmemo.seek(offset) if in_length<0: in_length = -in_length if in_length==0: return '' return self.fmemo.read(in_length) def read_memo(self, num): result = '' buffer = self.read_memo_record(num, -1) if len(buffer)<=0: return '' length = struct.unpack('>L', buffer[4:4+4])[0] + 8 block_size = self.memo_block_size if length < block_size: return buffer[8:length] rest_length = length - block_size rest_data = self.read_memo_record(num+1, rest_length) if len(rest_data)<=0: return '' return buffer[8:] + rest_data def readDbf(filename): """ Read the DBF file specified by the filename and return the records as a list of dictionary. @param filename File name of the DBF @return List of rows """ db = Dbase() db.open(filename) num = db.get_numrecords() rec = [] for i in range(0, num): record = db.get_record_with_names(i) rec.append(record) db.close() return rec if __name__=='__main__': rec = readDbf('dbf/sptable.dbf') for line in rec: print '%s %s' % (line['GENUS'].strip(), line['SPECIES'].strip())