- Improvements to the operation of the pymysql dialect on

Python 3, including some important decode/bytes steps.
Issues remain with BLOB types due to driver issues.
Courtesy Ben Trofatter.
- start using util.py3k, we will eventually remove the
sa2to3 fixer entirely

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py
index 4888398d9..b55bc1090 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py
@@ -1932,11 +1932,8 @@ class MySQLDialect(default.DefaultDialect):
         cursor.execute('SELECT @@tx_isolation')
         val = cursor.fetchone()[0]
         cursor.close()
-        # Py3K
-        #if isinstance(val, bytes):
-        #    val = val.decode()
-        # Py2K
-        # end Py2K
+        if util.py3k and isinstance(val, bytes):
+            val = val.decode()
         return val.upper().replace("-", " ")
 
     def do_commit(self, dbapi_connection):