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
o 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* MySQLCursor.__unicode__ is obsolete and replaced with __str__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'.
Please report problems on LaunchPad. Thanks!