John Machin: >You are confusing the hell out of yourself. You say that your web app >deals only with UTF-8 strings. Where do you get "the unicode string" >from??? If name is a utf-8 string, as your comment says, then len(name) >is all you need!!!
# I'll go ahead and concede defeat since you appear to be on the # verge of a heart attack :) # I can see that I lack clarity so I don't blame you. # By UTF-8 string, I mean a unicode object with UTF-8 encoding: type(ustr) <type 'unicode'> >>> repr(ustr) "u'\\u2708'" # The database API expects unicode objects: # A template query, then a variable number of values. # Perhaps I'm a victim of arbitrary design decisions :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
