Passing Unicode strings to Database
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>Subject: [DB-SIG] Passing Unicode strings to Database
>Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:11:17 +0700
>[Env: Win2k, Python 1.5.2]
>Hi people!
>I have a string in Japanese encoded in UTF8. I need to put it into
>database in Unicode form.
>import dbi, odbc
>o=odbc.odbc(self.ODBC_name+"/"+self.ODBC_sql_username+"/"+self.ODBC_sql_password)
>c=o.cursor()
>runes =
>UTF82Runes(string.replace(self.pr_table[row]["description"],"'","''"))
>operator="""INSERT INTO %s VALUES('%s','%s');"""%(self.ODBC_table,
> int(self.pr_table[row]["pr_no"]),
> runes.tostring())
>c.execute(operator) # update database
>I'm getting the following error trace:
>Traceback (innermost last):
> File "C:\dev\Products\MRATES~1\server.py", line 34, in ?
> PR.sync_all()
> File "C:\dev\Products\MRATES~1\PRML\code\prml.py", line 2837, in
>sync_all
> self.__sync_with_sql__(i)
> File "C:\dev\Products\MRATES~1\PRML\code\prml.py", line 2797, in
>__sync_with_sql__
> c.execute(operator) # update database
>TypeError: argument 1: expected string without null bytes, string found
>runes is array.array('H') containing Unicode string.
>Database string field has "ntext" type. How can I overcome this
>problem?
>Thanks in advance,
>Mick.
Mikhail,
If the problem is just conversion from UTF-8 to UNICODE, try this:
unicode(string_in_utf8_to_be_converted,'UTF-8')
It returns a unicode string.
Arthur Albano
"Just a Weekend Programmer"
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