try the script I gave you, start with that.
On Feb 21, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Kin <kinrac...@gmail.com> wrote: > The python version is: 2.7.3 > > And while attempting to commit my change, this is the error message I > obtained: > > UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 0-5: > ordinal not in range(256) > > I actually did obtain that a couple of time while trying to send a unicode > string as argument to the ORM class. > > > On Friday, February 21, 2014 11:42:52 AM UTC-8, Kin wrote: > Hello. > > i am not being able to write those traditional chinese characters to my mysql > database. > > From my understanding of the link below: > http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_9/dialects/mysql.html > > I should have been able to write unicode characters to my mysql database, and > be able to read them as written. > > Unfotunately, while writing them as: '軟件開發人員' > I obtained their utf8 encoded version which is: '軟件開發人員' > > i did attempt writing them manually to sqlalchemy and the whole process work. > But I do not understand why this not working with sqlalchemy while I > specifically requested it to be written to the database as utf8 using > "charset=utf8" , then read from it as unicode using "use_unicode=1'" > > the mysql version is: 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.04.2-log > the sqlalchemy version is:0.8.3 > > Please let me know what you think. > > Here is the code i used to fill the database, table and columns: > > from sqlalchemy import create_engine > from sqlalchemy import Column, String, BigInteger > from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base > > from sqlalchemy import types > > from sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql import VARCHAR > > engine = > create_engine('mysql+mysqldb://root:foo@<dbIpaddress>/testdb3?charset=utf8&use_unicode=1') > > Base = declarative_base() > > class Writers3(Base): > __tablename__ = "writers3" > __table_args__ = {'mysql_engine': 'InnoDB'} > id = Column(BigInteger(20), primary_key=True) > account = Column(VARCHAR(length=25, unicode = True)) > > def __init__(self, account): > self.account = account > > Base.metadata.create_all(engine) > > > And here is the code I used to fill the table with values: > > from clean_table_def import Writers3 > > from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base > > from sqlalchemy import create_engine > > from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, scoped_session > > db_url = 'mysql://root:foo@dbIpAddress/testdb3' > > engine1 = create_engine(db_url, pool_recycle=2*60*60) > > Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine1) > > session = Session() > > object1 = Writers3( '軟件開發人員') > > session.add(object1) > > session.commit() > > session.close() > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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