new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  #
  # AccessDump.py
  # A simple script to dump the contents of a Microsoft Access Database.
  # It depends upon the mdbtools suite:
  #   http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools/
  
  import string, sys, subprocess # the subprocess module is new in python v 2.4
  
  DATABASE = sys.argv[1]
  
  # Get the list of table names with "mdb-tables"
  table_names = subprocess.Popen(["mdb-tables", "-1", DATABASE],
                                 stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
  tables = table_names.split('\n')
  
  # Dump each table as a CSV file using "mdb-export",
  # converting " " in table names to "_" for the CSV filenames.
  for table in tables:
      if table != '':
          filename = table.replace(" ","_") + ".csv"
          file = open(filename, 'w')
          print("Dumping " + table)
          contents = subprocess.Popen(["mdb-export", "-D", "%F", DATABASE, table],
                                      stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
          file.write(string.replace(contents, '\r', ''))
          file.close()
  
subject: Add util script for dumping Access tables to .csv