Hey! awesome! Looks like SQLAlchemy supports pymysql which is really great. We might try this and move to python 3 if the performance doesn't suffer too much.
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:39 AM, James Hare <james.h...@wikidc.org> wrote: > Python 3 with Pymysql works pretty well, in my experience. > > > — > James Hare > President, Wikimedia DC > http://wikimediadc.org > @wikimediadc > > On Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Dan Andreescu wrote: > > Thanks a lot, this indeed seems to have been the root of all problems. > Wikimetrics now works like a charm, not a single error this time. On a > wider note, many American-designed pieces of software have a problem with > non-Latin 1 characters (for instance both Picasa and Content Translation > had Alt+s shortcut reserved for saving, whereas it’s the only way most of > us write ą, one of the letters of the Polish alphabet). I wouldn’t have > guessed that the problem here might be with the very existence of non-Latin > 1 signs anywhere in the data. Thanks for spotting it – and for your > assistance. > Cheers > > > This is actually not as American-centric as would seem on the surface. We > really worked very *very* hard to design Wikimetrics to account for any > unicode characters. It's just that Python 2 is *the worst* language in the > world at dealing with this problem (except maybe assembly?) And sadly the > mysql python driver seems determined to never support Python 3. > > As the guy who chose these libraries unaware of the terrible unicode > handling, I want to take this opportunity to apologize :) And to say that > we're not ignoring unicode, it's just complicated. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimetrics mailing list > Wikimetrics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimetrics > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimetrics mailing list > Wikimetrics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimetrics > >
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