MS-Access - Easiest way to automatically extract a table

Here's the background for my question:

My program 开发者_高级运维will be getting a new copy of an MS-Access database every night, and I need way to automatically pull data from one table of out it. (Preferably using Python).

I don't know much about Access but so far I'm thinking I could save the file on a windows computer, (launch it?) and access the data via ODBC. Would that work, is there an easier way? How would I automatically launch it and start ODBC running?

I'm open to other suggestions, for example is there a way to parse the Access file directly? Or run an export script from within Access?

You can read data in Access using ODBC without opening it. You just need to know the file location, and the connection string. Then read data from your table using SQL commands.