dealing with special characters in Python and MySQL

[ronrsr]

> >
>     Try putting "use_unicode=True" in the MySQLdb "connect" call.

tried that, and also added charset="utf8" -

now, I can't do any string operations, I get the error msg:

descriptor 'lower' requires a 'str' object but received a 'unicode'
      args = ("descriptor 'lower' requires a 'str' object but received
a 'unicode'",)


or similar, on every string operation.

many thanks,

-0rsr-


>
>     See
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1559350&group_id=22307&atid=374932
>
> and look at other charset related bugs at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=374932&group_id=22307&func=browse
>
> Also note that MySQLdb didn't support this until recently, so check
> your version of MySQLdb.  There still seem to be problems in that area.
> 
> 				John Nagle
> 				Animats