Τη Πέμπτη, 14 Φεβρουαρίου 2019 - 9:14:08 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Igor Korot έγραψε: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 1:10 PM <vergos.niko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Τη Πέμπτη, 14 Φεβρουαρίου 2019 - 8:16:40 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Calvin > > Spealman έγραψε: > > > If you see something like this > > > > > > '\xce\x86\xce\xba\xce\xb7\xcf\x82 > > > \xce\xa4\xcf\x83\xce\xb9\xce\xac\xce\xbc\xce\xb7\xcf\x82' > > > > > > then you don't have a string, you have raw bytes. You don't "encode" > > > bytes, > > > you decode them. If you know this is already encoded as UTF-8 then you > > > just > > > need the decode('utf8') part and *not* the encode('latin1') step. > > > > > > encode() is something that turns text into bytes > > > decode() is something that turns bytes into text > > > > > > So, if you already have bytes and you need text, you should only want to > > > be > > > doing a decode() and you just need to specific the correct encoding. > > > > I Agree but I don't know in what encoding the string is encoded into. > > > > I just tried > > > > names = tuple( [s.decode('utf8') for s in names] ) > > > > but i get the error of: > > > > AttributeError("'str' object has no attribute 'decode'",) > > > > but why it says s is a string object? Since we have names in raw bytes is > > should be a bytes object? > > > > How can i turn names from raw bytes to utf-8 strings? > > > > ps. Who encoded them in raw bytes anyways? Since they fetced directly from > > the database shouldn't python3 have them stored in names as utf-8 strings? > > why raw bytes instead? > > What DBMS? How do you access the DB? > Maybe the field is BLOB?
No, the fields are all 'varchar' i use pymysql and i utilize it like so to grab the values from the db as utf-8. con = pymysql.connect( db = 'clientele', user = 'vergos', passwd = '******', charset = 'utf8' ) cur = con.cursor() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list