So inspecting the elements of the tuple, they are both str, so hence unicode.
Are you saying that if I convert those values to bytes it could improve performance? > I'd not bother with the literal_binds and just use a literal value: > > pkf = [(col == literal_column("'%s'" % v)) for (col, v) in zip(cols, x)] > > but also I'd look to see what the nature of "v" is, if it's like a > Unicode object or something, you might be getting bogged down on the > decode/encode or something like that. Sending as bytes() perhaps > might change that. > -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.