A package to create a new (empty) Access database. Potentially of interest to pyodbc users who:

• switched from pypyodbc and miss having the pypyodbc.win_create_mdb method (see Note 3, below),

• need to create a new Access database so they can dump information into it, or

• want to create a temporary database to help work around issues regarding performance, prevent "bloat" in the main database, or avoid the dreaded "Operation must use an updateable query." error message.

Installation:

pip install msaccessdb

Usage:

import msaccessdb
msaccessdb.create(r'C:\path\to\new.accdb')

Notes:

1. This package does not need the Access Database Engine to create a database.

2. No effort is made to prevent overwriting an existing file.

3. This package simply creates the file. It doesn't automatically connect to it using pyodbc (or anything else).