On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 9:27 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a db object with a string property that may grow larger than its
> column specifies (because it's being appended to). I tried:
>
>     old_string = obj.string
>     try:
>         obj.string = "abc" * 10000
>         dbsession.flush()
>     except Exception as e:
>         obj.string = old_string
>
> but the expected warning wasn't caught here:
>
> /…/pymysql/cursors.py:166: Warning: (1265, "Data truncated for column 'chat'
> at row 1")
>   result = self._query(query)
>
> What is the proper way of handling this situation, other than comparing the
> string length against the column size explicitly?

the most appropriate way is to set strict SQL mode on your MySQL database:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/sql-mode.html#sql-mode-strict





>
> Thanks!
> Jens
>
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