MySQLdb and Unicode

Hi, I try to write unicode strings to a MySQL database via MySQLdb. According to the documentation I should pass 'utf-8' as keyword parameter to the connect method. But then I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\develop\SyynX\unicode_test.py, line 7, in ?

Re: MySQLdb and Unicode

Achim Domma (Procoders) wrote: Hi, I try to write unicode strings to a MySQL database via MySQLdb. According to the documentation I should pass 'utf-8' as keyword parameter to the connect method. But then I get the following error: (...) I'm using version 1.2 of MySQLdb. Any hint