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authorSteve Johnson <steve@steveasleep.com>2014-01-09 18:00:38 -0800
committerSteve Johnson <steve@steveasleep.com>2014-01-09 18:00:38 -0800
commitce2874d482ac9086dfd867df678cbf4f287ae990 (patch)
treec91a72360b7e51af5006aa4be9e48b0b3f998433
parentb287a379e9257fe00c2ba5f01b332ebc51546cff (diff)
downloadsqlalchemy-pr/56.tar.gz
MySQL-Python <1.2.5 unicode compatibility notepr/56
Unicode and UnicodeText columns will have str instead of unicode values when used with MySQL-python versions prior to 1.2.5.
-rw-r--r--lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py
index c6942ae2d..b99b8f8d3 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ 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.
+:class:`~sqlalchemy.Unicode` and :class:`~sqlalchemy.UnicodeText`
+columns will have :class:`str` instead of :class:`unicode` values when
+used with MySQL-python versions prior to 1.2.5.
"""
from .base import (MySQLDialect, MySQLExecutionContext,