#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # MySQL Connector/Python - MySQL driver written in Python. # Copyright (c) 2009, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. # MySQL Connector/Python is licensed under the terms of the GPLv2 # <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>, like most # MySQL Connectors. There are special exceptions to the terms and # conditions of the GPLv2 as it is applied to this software, see the # FOSS License Exception # <http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html>. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA """ Example using MySQL Connector/Python showing: * the usefulness of unicode, if it works correctly.. * dropping and creating a table * inserting and selecting a row """ import mysql.connector info = """ For this to work you need to make sure your terminal can output unicode character correctly. Check if the encoding of your terminal is set to UTF-8. """ def main(config): output = [] db = mysql.connector.Connect(**config) cursor = db.cursor() # Show the unicode string we're going to use unistr = u"\u00bfHabla espa\u00f1ol?" output.append("Unicode string: %s" % unistr) # Drop table if exists, and create it new stmt_drop = "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS unicode" cursor.execute(stmt_drop) stmt_create = ( "CREATE TABLE unicode (" " id TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, " " str VARCHAR(50) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL, " " PRIMARY KEY (id)" ") CHARACTER SET 'utf8'" ) cursor.execute(stmt_create) # Insert a row stmt_insert = "INSERT INTO unicode (str) VALUES (%s)" cursor.execute(stmt_insert, (unistr,)) # Select it again and show it stmt_select = "SELECT str FROM unicode WHERE id = %s" cursor.execute(stmt_select, (1,)) row = cursor.fetchone() output.append("Unicode string coming from db: " + row[0]) # Cleaning up, dropping the table again cursor.execute(stmt_drop) cursor.close() db.close() return output if __name__ == '__main__': config = { 'host': 'localhost', 'port': 3306, 'database': 'test', 'user': 'root', 'password': '', 'charset': 'utf8', 'use_unicode': True, 'get_warnings': True, } out = main(config) print('\n'.join(out))