File "scraper.py", line 77, in run session.commit() File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 617, in commit self.transaction.commit() File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 293, in commit self._prepare_impl() File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 277, in _prepare_impl self.session.flush() File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 1493, in flush self._flush(objects) File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 1562, in _flush flush_context.execute() File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/unitofwork.py", line 327, in execute rec.execute(self) File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/unitofwork.py", line 471, in execute uow File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/mapper.py", line 2107, in _save_obj execute(statement, params) File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1399, in execute params) File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1532, in _execute_clauseelement compiled_sql, distilled_params File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1633, in _execute_context context) File "/home/benjamin/test/test1/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py", line 325, in do_execute cursor.execute(statement, parameters) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 158, in execute query = query % db.literal(args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 265, in literal return self.escape(o, self.encoders) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 198, in string_literal return db.string_literal(obj) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(128)
On 29 September 2011 13:59, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote: > Can you attach a traceback for that? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 29, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Benjamin Sims <benjamins...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've recently moved from SQLite to MySQL as the underlying database for my > application. The move is causing me various problems, principally around > Unicode. I *think* they were not occurring when SQLite was there, so I > thought I would ask if anybody on the list has had similar problems. > > My current difficultly is that when saving content (Chinese, generally) to > the database, I get the dreaded: > > *** UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position > 0-4: ordinal not in range(128) > > error and a rollback. > > I have checked that: > > - the MySQL table has a suitable encoding (CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE > utf8_general_ci;) > - the MySQL connection string has the charset on the end (?charset=utf8) > - The type for the relevant Column is Unicode (this worked previously with > just string, but I have changed it anyway just in case) > - The content is unicode at the point it gets sent to the the database > (again, this was a plain string previously but seemed to work) > > However, on save I get the above error from SQLAlchemy. What do I need to > be doing to get the content in the right format to send through? > > Thanks, > Ben > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.