#20377: BinaryField doesn't work on MySQL and Python 3
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Reporter: aaugustin | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization | Version: master
Component: Database layer | Resolution:
(models, ORM) | Triage Stage: Accepted
Severity: Normal | Needs documentation: 0
Keywords: | Patch needs improvement: 0
Has patch: 0 | UI/UX: 0
Needs tests: 0 |
Easy pickings: 0 |
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Description changed by aaugustin:
Old description:
> A unofficial port of MySQLdb appears to be the only solution to connect
> to MySQL from Python 3 at this time, see [e81e319f].
>
> Unfortunately, its handling of binary data is very buggy. For instance,
> this code is almost certainly wrong:
> {{{
> def Binary(x):
> return str(x)
> }}}
> There are other problems, like attempting to decode all bytestrings as
> UTF-8.
>
> With no short-term solution in sight, tests involving BinaryField were
> marked as expected failures on MySQL and Python 3 in [7476d96].
>
> This commit should be reverted once a production-grade, Python
> 3-compatible database adapter exists for MySQL.
New description:
An unofficial port of MySQLdb appears to be the only solution to connect
to MySQL from Python 3 at this time, see [e81e319f].
Unfortunately, its handling of binary data is very buggy. For instance,
this code is almost certainly wrong:
{{{
def Binary(x):
return str(x)
}}}
There are other problems, like attempting to decode all bytestrings as
UTF-8.
With no short-term solution in sight, tests involving BinaryField were
marked as expected failures on MySQL and Python 3 in [7476d96f].
This commit should be reverted once a production-grade, Python
3-compatible database adapter exists for MySQL.
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