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Diffstat (limited to 'MySQLdb')
| -rw-r--r-- | MySQLdb/connections.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/MySQLdb/connections.py b/MySQLdb/connections.py index 1d6fa82..27de110 100644 --- a/MySQLdb/connections.py +++ b/MySQLdb/connections.py @@ -289,6 +289,10 @@ class Connection(_mysql.connection): set can only be changed in MySQL-4.1 and newer. If you try to change the character set from the current value in an older version, NotSupportedError will be raised.""" + if charset == "utf8mb4": + py_charset = "utf8" + else: + py_charset = charset if self.character_set_name() != charset: try: super(Connection, self).set_character_set(charset) @@ -297,8 +301,8 @@ class Connection(_mysql.connection): raise NotSupportedError("server is too old to set charset") self.query('SET NAMES %s' % charset) self.store_result() - self.string_decoder.charset = charset - self.unicode_literal.charset = charset + self.string_decoder.charset = py_charset + self.unicode_literal.charset = py_charset def set_sql_mode(self, sql_mode): """Set the connection sql_mode. See MySQL documentation for |