# mysql/mysqldb.py # Copyright (C) 2005-2014 the SQLAlchemy authors and contributors # # This module is part of SQLAlchemy and is released under # the MIT License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php """ .. dialect:: mysql+mysqldb :name: MySQL-Python :dbapi: mysqldb :connectstring: mysql+mysqldb://:@[:]/ :url: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python Unicode ------- MySQLdb requires a "charset" parameter to be passed in order for it to handle non-ASCII characters correctly. When this parameter is passed, MySQLdb will also implicitly set the "use_unicode" flag to true, which means that it will return Python unicode objects instead of bytestrings. However, SQLAlchemy's decode process, when C extensions are enabled, is orders of magnitude faster than that of MySQLdb as it does not call into Python functions to do so. Therefore, the **recommended URL to use for unicode** will include both charset and use_unicode=0:: create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://user:pass@host/dbname?charset=utf8&use_unicode=0") As of this writing, MySQLdb only runs on Python 2. It is not known how MySQLdb behaves on Python 3 as far as unicode decoding. Known Issues ------------- MySQL-python version 1.2.2 has a serious memory leak related to unicode conversion, a feature which is disabled via ``use_unicode=0``. It is strongly advised to use the latest version of MySQL-Python. """ from .base import (MySQLDialect, MySQLExecutionContext, MySQLCompiler, MySQLIdentifierPreparer) from ...connectors.mysqldb import ( MySQLDBExecutionContext, MySQLDBCompiler, MySQLDBIdentifierPreparer, MySQLDBConnector ) from .base import TEXT from ... import sql class MySQLExecutionContext_mysqldb(MySQLDBExecutionContext, MySQLExecutionContext): pass class MySQLCompiler_mysqldb(MySQLDBCompiler, MySQLCompiler): pass class MySQLIdentifierPreparer_mysqldb(MySQLDBIdentifierPreparer, MySQLIdentifierPreparer): pass class MySQLDialect_mysqldb(MySQLDBConnector, MySQLDialect): execution_ctx_cls = MySQLExecutionContext_mysqldb statement_compiler = MySQLCompiler_mysqldb preparer = MySQLIdentifierPreparer_mysqldb def _check_unicode_returns(self, connection): # work around issue fixed in # https://github.com/farcepest/MySQLdb1/commit/cd44524fef63bd3fcb71947392326e9742d520e8 # specific issue w/ the utf8_bin collation and unicode returns has_utf8_bin = connection.scalar( "show collation where %s = 'utf8' and %s = 'utf8_bin'" % ( self.identifier_preparer.quote("Charset"), self.identifier_preparer.quote("Collation") )) if has_utf8_bin: additional_tests = [ sql.collate(sql.cast( sql.literal_column( "'test collated returns'"), TEXT(charset='utf8')), "utf8_bin") ] else: additional_tests = [] return super(MySQLDBConnector, self)._check_unicode_returns( connection, additional_tests) dialect = MySQLDialect_mysqldb