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Re: sqlalchemy and Unicode strings: errormessage

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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Wolfgang Meiners
<WolfgangMeiners01@web.de> wrote:
> Am 31.05.11 13:32, schrieb Daniel Kluev:
>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Wolfgang Meiners
>> <WolfgangMeiners01@web.de> wrote:
>>> metadata = MetaData('sqlite://')
>>> a_table = Table('tf_lehrer', metadata,
>>>    Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True),
>>>    Column('Kuerzel', Text),
>>>    Column('Name', Text))
>>
>> Use UnicodeText instead of Text.
>>
>>> A_record = A_class('BUM', 'Bäumer')
>>
>> If this is python2.x, use u'Bäumer' instead.
>>
>>
>
> Thank you Daniel.
> So i came a little bit closer to the solution. Actually i dont write the
> strings in a python program but i read them from a file, which is
> utf8-encoded.
>
> So i changed the lines
>
>    for line in open(file,'r'):
>        line = line.strip()
>
> first to
>
>    for line in open(file,'r'):
>        line = unicode(line.strip())
>
> and finally to
>
>    for line in open(file,'r'):
>        line = unicode(line.strip(),'utf8')
>
> and now i get really utf8-strings. It does work but i dont know why it
> works. For me it looks like i change an utf8-string to an utf8-string.
>

There's no such thing as a UTF-8 string. You have a list of bytes
(byte string) and you have a list of characters (unicode). UTF-8 is a
function that can convert bytes into characters (and the reverse). You
may recognize that the list of bytes was encoded using UTF-8 but the
computer does not unless you explicitly tell it to. Does that help
clear it up?

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sqlalchemy and Unicode strings: errormessage Wolfgang Meiners <WolfgangMeiners01@web.de> - 2011-05-30 23:40 +0200
  Re: sqlalchemy and Unicode strings: errormessage Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> - 2011-05-31 10:55 +0100
    Re: sqlalchemy and Unicode strings: errormessage Wolfgang Meiners <WolfgangMeiners01@web.de> - 2011-05-31 17:47 +0200
  Re: sqlalchemy and Unicode strings: errormessage Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-31 22:32 +1100
    Re: sqlalchemy and Unicode strings: errormessage Wolfgang Meiners <WolfgangMeiners01@web.de> - 2011-05-31 17:45 +0200
      Re: sqlalchemy and Unicode strings: errormessage Wolfgang Meiners <WolfgangMeiners01@web.de> - 2011-05-31 18:10 +0200
      Re: sqlalchemy and Unicode strings: errormessage Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-05-31 09:42 -0700
      RE: sqlalchemy and Unicode strings: errormessage "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmchase.com> - 2011-05-31 12:31 -0400
      Re: sqlalchemy and Unicode strings: errormessage Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 03:19 +1000
      Thanks for all responses Wolfgang Meiners <WolfgangMeiners01@web.de> - 2011-05-31 21:52 +0200
        Re: Thanks for all responses Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 07:56 +1000
          Re: Thanks for all responses Wolfgang Meiners <WolfgangMeiners01@web.de> - 2011-06-01 19:29 +0200
            Re: Thanks for all responses Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 04:38 +1000

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