Geert JM Vanderkelen

MySQL Connector/Python 0.1.2-devel is a quick follow-up release for 0.1.1 fixing a few problems around character sets and unicode.

You can download Connector/Python from LaunchPad.

Release notes for MySQL Connector/Python 0.1.2-devel

o Fixing unicode usage for both Python 2.4+ and 3.1
  * Setting 'use_unicode' at connection time is now
    working.
  * conversion.py: removing regular expression for
    quoting backslashes.
  * Adding test case for bug lp:499410
  
  Py3k specific:
  * Strings from MySQL are decoded to the given character
    when use_unicode is false
  * The statement is encoded just before sending it to the
    MySQL server. Internally, all is done in unicode.
  * In conversion.py: removing _unicode_to_mysql, adding
    _bytes_to_mysql
  * MySQLCursor.__unicode__ is obsolete and replaced
    with __str__
  * Removing tests for which the methods were deleted.

o Fix setting character set at connection
  
  * mysql.connector.Connect(charset='latin1') now works
    as expected
  * Default character set is (still) UTF-8.
  * SET NAMES is only used when changing character set
    after connecting.
    Use MySQL.set_charset(charsetname) to change.
  * Test case added for bug report; fixing test case in
    test_protocol.py to reflect the new default character
    set 'utf-8'.

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