On Friday 17 November 2006 18:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> I started a working TG application after upgrading to FC6. I am using
> the trunk and virtual-python to set up a work environment. The problem
> is that an incoming argument string is in unicode and the SO select now
> fails :
>
>   l = model.Pad.byName(library)
>
> To fix ( or rather mask out ) the problem I simply added:
>
>   library=library.encode('ascii')
>
> Of course, I'll probably have to go to every method and do the same
> and this naturally sucks!
> I know I could change all my StringCol to UnicodeCol as most threads
> suggest but I am not sure how this will affect existing MYSQL tables.

If ascii is all you have in the DB, there won't be any unwanted effects. ascii 
is a subset of UTF-8.

Diez

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