| Issue 29: | Unicode query strings | |
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I am unable to define a unicode query string to pass to the Cursor.execute(). The following code
illustrates my problem. I apologize if this is not a real issue and simply my ignorance.
What steps will reproduce the problem?
#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
pyodbc_unicode_test.py
environment
- Mac OSX 10.5
- Python 2.5.1
- latest pyodbc
- mssql
- latest Actual ODBC Driver
"""
import pyodbc as db
unicode = u'\ufffeselect * from wasp..locations'
string = 'select * from wasp..locations'
utf8 = unicode.encode('utf-8')
con = db.connect('DSN=xxx;UID=xxx;PWD=xxx')
cursor = con.cursor()
f = cursor.execute(utf8)
s = cursor.execute(string)
u = cursor.execute(unicode)
assert type(f) is db.Cursor, "executing utf8 fails: %s" % f
assert type(s) is db.Cursor, "executing string fails: %s" % s
assert type(u) is db.Cursor, "executing unicode fails: %s" % u
con.close()
#output
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#Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "pyodbc_unicode_test.py", line 29, in <module>
# assert type(u) is db.Cursor, "executing unicode fails: %s" % u
#AssertionError: executing unicode fails: -1
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected the u variable to be of type pyodbc.Cursor after the execute function was called.
Instead it returned a -1.
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
environment
- Mac OSX 10.5
- Python 2.5.1
- latest pyodbc
- mssql
- latest Actual ODBC Driver
Please provide any additional information below.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide with this issue.
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Jan 27, 2009
The line that reads: unicode = u'\ufffeselect * from wasp..locations' Should have read: unicode = u'select * from wasp.dbo.locations' |
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Jan 27, 2009
I'm concerned that there is a Unicode issue on Mac OS/X -- there is another issue open also. Unfortunately, I don't have immediate access to an OS/X environment and have to rely on someone else. I'll see if I can get some testing tomorrow. It is very odd since execute should either return the cursor or raise an exception -- only the old 2.0.x versions returned a rowcount. Can you provide an ODBC trace? That will tell us what pyodbc passed to the driver and what was returned.
Status: Investigating
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Jan 28, 2009
I performed the trace. If I am reading this log correctly the interesting part is lines 390 - 395.
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Mar 18, 2009
I think this is fixed in 2.1.5-beta7 9c34c6a79c291a4ed17596f4bae72ce7ed04f314 (so it will be in 2.1.5). This is potentially serious: Apparently I forgot to change Cursor.execute to always return the Cursor when I made the 2.1.x branch! I'd like to not create the official 2.1.5 until I verify as many fixes as possible. Can you build from the given github hash or can I provide a source zip file for you to test? |
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Mar 19, 2009
I get a new error. Will be able to research more next week.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pyodbc_unicode_test.py", line 27, in <module>
u = cursor.execute(unicode)
pyodbc.ProgrammingError: ('42000', '[42000] [Actual][SQL Server] Statement(s) could not be prepared. (8180)
(SQLExecDirectW)')
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Oct 01, 2009
I tested this problem on snow leopard + latest freetds stable + latest pyodbc from github. The above test case does not produce any errors. If you attempt to print results from each time I cursor.execute() is called I get the following error. Traceback (most recent call last): File "issue29.py", line 22, in <module> print u.fetchone() pyodbc.ProgrammingError: No results. Previous SQL was not a query. The original problem I reported seems to have been solved with the fix you described in comment 4. The cursor stays the cursor and does not become a -1. I would still like to understand why unicode query strings seem to not work or if I am doing something wrong but I would say this main issue is resolved. |
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