[Philipp Giere]

Somebody out there who can give me a hint how to call SQL directly from python and not with SQLMethods

The Python Database SIG has developed a standard database interface, and it is supported by many database modules. On Windows, I use ODBC. The package to get is mxODBC. Whether or not you use ODBC, the interface methods are the same. Here's a sketch of how to use the SIG's interface: import ODBC.Windows # Or whatever driver you use # Connect to database and get cursor conn=ODBC.Windows.Connect('nesdis_quest') cursor=conn.cursor() # Build a query statement - in this example, an INSERT statement insertStr='INSERT INTO %s(%s) values(%s)' %\ (table,cols,values) # calculated elsewhere # Execute cursor.execute(insertStr) # Number of inserted rows is in cursor.rowcount # Commit transaction and clean up cursor.close() conn.commit() conn.close() Not hard at all! Cheers, Tom P