How to create a new database .mdb with Python

Question

Hello I've been searching around and couldn't find anything up to date in this topic.

I would like to create a new.mdb file using pythons library pyodbc.

I've tried so many different ways and can never succeed. The main problem for me is to connect to a database that yet does not exist.

import pyodbc
DRV = '{Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)}'
PWD = ''
con=pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={};DBQ={};PWD={}'.format(DRV,'./'+new_path+'.mdb',PWD))

I've tried inserting a

f=open(new_path+'.mdb','a')
f.close()

in order to create a mdb file before trying to connect but could not succeed as well, it says that the file is corrupted.

Answer 1

You can use the msaccessdb module for that. After you

pip install msaccessdb

or

pip install --user msaccessdb

you can simply do

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