Opened 12 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
#20377 closed Cleanup/optimization
BinaryField doesn't work on MySQL and Python 3 — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Aymeric Augustin | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Database layer (models, ORM) | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Someday/Maybe | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
A unofficial port of MySQLdb appears to be the only solution to connect to MySQL from Python 3 at this time, see [e81e319f].
Unfortunately, its handling of binary data is very buggy. For instance, this code is almost certainly wrong:
def Binary(x):
return str(x)
There are other problems, like attempting to decode all bytestrings as UTF-8.
With no short-term solution in sight, tests involving BinaryField were marked as expected failures on MySQL and Python 3 in [7476d96].
This commit should be reverted once a production-grade, Python 3-compatible database adapter exists for MySQL.
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