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    <p>Python newbie here so please be gentle.</p> <p>I'm trying to convert dbf file to csv. I stumbled upon a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4440791/convert-csv-file-into-dbf-using-python">previous, similar</a> question (with opposite conversion though) and was thinking abou using <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbf/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">dbf</a> module. </p> <p>Using example from the <a href="http://packages.python.org/dbf/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">docs</a> I tried this code:</p> <pre><code>import dbf dbf_fn = r'_PATH_HERE_\dbffile.dbf' csv_fn = r'_PATH_HERE_\csvfile.csv' in_db = dbf.Table(dbf_fn) in_db.export(filename=csv_fn, header=True) </code></pre> <p>When I try to run it I get the following error:</p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "&lt;pyshell#24&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt; in_db.export(filename=csv_fn, header=True) File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\dbf.py", line 3379, in __getattr__ return object.__getattribute__(self, name) AttributeError: 'Db3Table' object has no attribute 'export' </code></pre> <p>Why does the export fail?</p> <hr> <p><strong>Update:</strong></p> <p>As suggested by <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1292791/chm">chm</a> I now use:</p> <pre><code>dbf.export(in_db, csv_fn, header=True) </code></pre> <p>This still causes problem:</p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Data_RP\data\projects\kN\GIS\python\04_convert_dbf_ALT.py", line 31, in &lt;module&gt; dbf.export(in_db, filename=csv_fn, header=True) File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\dbf.py", line 5670, in export table = source_table(table_or_records[0]) File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\dbf.py", line 3384, in __getitem__ return self._table[value] File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\site-packages\dbf.py", line 3175, in __getitem__ raise DbfError("%s is closed; record %d is unavailable" % (meta.filename, index)) DbfError: D:\Data_RP\data\projects\kN\GIS\shapes\SWM_4N.dbf is closed; record 0 is unavailable </code></pre>
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