title: Working with an Access database in Python on non-Windows platform (Linux or Mac)
body: <p>I want to access the data in a Microsoft Access database. I have some .accdb and .mdb files and want to read them in Python. </p>
  
  <p>From my research, pyodbc can only be used on Windows platform, but I am working on Mac OS X.
  I am new to Python.</p>
  
  <p>The other option is if I could export the data from the database to a csv and then use in python.</p>
  
  <p>Any help or starting would be highly appreciated.</p>