Hi,

I am new to python. I am using python 2.6.6 with pyodbc-2.1.8 and pywin32-216 on Windows Vista.

I was able to connect to MS Access with pyodbc and execute my SELECT statement to retrieve data from MS Access. However, what I have retrieved appeared to be in Unicode strings (e.g., u'xyz', etc.) which I could not use as keys to build a dictionary, and I could not use as strings to write regular expressions to match...