[Zope] Newbie Question on Informix

Hello all I know you can use ODBC to access Informix from the windows platform. Is there a way to access an informix database using an linux machine? I noticed that there is a python module for Informix, can this help the situation? Does this mean I could access informix if I create python methods to do it? How complicated is it to create the interface to zope? Thanks in advance Grant