I've thrown up no less than five dragons in the docs for these flags that
should be up by now.  I'm evaluating if I can deprecate these flags for 1.3
since really everything thats py2k only should be heading towards
deprecation.



On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 11:48 AM Mike Bayer <[email protected] wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 11:29 AM mdob <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was looking into create_engine options enocding and convert_unicode
> and it seems it works for ORM but not for executing raw sql.
> > Is that intentional or I'm missing something?
>
> the MySQL DBAPIs already handle unicode conversion by default, and as
> your URLs do not include ?use_unicode=0 (which is a flag specific to
> pymysql, mysqlclient and mysql-python DBAPIs), this capability is
> turned on.    This flag used to be documented in the SQLAlchemy docs
> but as there is no reason to use use_unicode=0 with modern DBAPIs,
> these docs have been removed.
>
> The SQLAlchemy convert_unicode flag, which should be considered very
> legacy at this point, doesn't do anything if the DBAPI is already
> doing unicode conversion for us, unless you send
> convert_unicode='force'.      This is documented at
>
> https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/type_basics.html#sqlalchemy.types.String.params.convert_unicode
> .
>
> But as the docs should indicate, perhaps not strongly enough, there is
> no reason to use this flag with modern DBAPIs, all of which now
> natively support unicode.
>
>
>
>
> >
> > from sqlalchemy import create_engine
> > from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
> > from sqlalchemy.ext.automap import automap_base
> > from sqlalchemy.sql import text
> >
> > def get_first_name(engine):
> >     row = engine.execute(text('SELECT FirstName FROM Customer LIMIT
> 1')).fetchone()
> >     print row[0]
> >
> >     Base = automap_base()
> >     Base.prepare(engine, reflect=True)
> >     Customer = Base.classes.Customer
> >     c1 = Session(engine).query(Customer).first()
> >     print c1.FirstName
> >     print 5*'--'
> >
> >
> > engine = create_engine('mysql://chinook:[email protected]:3309/Chinook')
> > unicode_engine = create_engine('mysql://
> chinook:[email protected]:3309/Chinook', encoding='latin1',
> convert_unicode=True)
> >
> > get_first_name(engine)
> > get_first_name(unicode_engine)
> >
> >
> > The output was
> > Lu�s
> > Lu�s
> > ----------
> > Lu�s
> > Luís
> > ----------
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Michal
> >
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