easiest way here would be to specify use_unicode=1&charset=utf8 with the MySQL connection string, so that your MySQLdb DBAPI handles incoming unicode objects correctly.
http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_7/dialects/mysql.html#unicode On Jul 18, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to do a select on a table, where a user has a /username/ with a > German umlaut like "kölbel". > The table in the mysql-database is utf-8. I also failed when the table was > latin1. > > My problem is that by no(!) chance I manage to match the user and get a row > from the select statement. (see version2) > > Should it be possible at all or am I just screwing up with my non-existent > unicode-skills! ;-) > > Thanks a lot and kind regards > Cornelius > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > from sqlalchemy import create_engine > from sqlalchemy import MetaData > from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker > from sqlalchemy import Table > > CONNECT_STRING="mysql://my_connect_string" > TABLE = "linotp_user" > USER = u"kölbel" > > engine = create_engine(CONNECT_STRING, echo=False) > meta = MetaData() > Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine) > session = Session() > table = Table(TABLE, meta, autoload=True, autoload_with=engine) > > print "type of user: ", type(USER) > select = table.select(u"username = '%s'" % USER) > > print "select statement: ", select > print "type of select: ", type(select) > > print "Printing rows, version 1" > rows = session.execute(select) > for row in rows: > print " ::: ", row > > print "Printing rows, version 2" > sel_string=u"select * from %s where username = '%s'" % (TABLE, USER) > print type(sel_string) > print sel_string > rows = engine.execute(sel_string) > for row in rows: > print " ::: ", row > > session.close() >
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