On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 18:28 -0700, Abandoned wrote: > Hi.. > I want to select datas but some datas give me this error: > > psycopg2.ProgrammingError: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": > 0xc720 > HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match > the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by > "client_encoding". > > My select command: > cursor.execute("SELECT id from templinks where url='%s'"% URL)
Haven't we told you before not to use the % operator to fill values into a query? Use parameter binding: cursor.execute("SELECT id from templinks where url=%s", (URL,) ) > This problem occured only select data when i try insert the same data > it doesn't give me error.. > Note: My database is UTF-8 and the URLS come from different web sites' > html code Your string probably contains latin-1 encoded text. Try URL.decode('latin-1').encode('utf-8') to transcode it into utf-8. Hope this helps, -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list