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-rw-r--r--django/db/backends/mysql/base.py13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py b/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py
index a73c740fdf..6e8eb187d3 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ MySQL database backend for Django.
Requires MySQLdb: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
"""
+import re
+
from django.db.backends import *
from django.db.backends.mysql.client import DatabaseClient
from django.db.backends.mysql.creation import DatabaseCreation
@@ -26,8 +28,7 @@ if (version < (1,2,1) or (version[:3] == (1, 2, 1) and
raise ImproperlyConfigured("MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have %s" % Database.__version__)
from MySQLdb.converters import conversions
-from MySQLdb.constants import FIELD_TYPE
-import re
+from MySQLdb.constants import FIELD_TYPE, FLAG
# Raise exceptions for database warnings if DEBUG is on
from django.conf import settings
@@ -49,6 +50,12 @@ django_conversions.update({
FIELD_TYPE.TIME: util.typecast_time,
FIELD_TYPE.DECIMAL: util.typecast_decimal,
FIELD_TYPE.NEWDECIMAL: util.typecast_decimal,
+ # By default, mysqldb will return VARCHAR BINARY fields as type str.
+ # This is a bad idea, as BINARY doesn't indicate that it's arbitrary
+ # binary data, but that collation uses the binary representation.
+ # Replacing the list makes it return unicode. MySQLdb later adds
+ # another list entry for non-binary fields.
+ FIELD_TYPE.VARCHAR: [(FLAG.BINARY, lambda s: s.decode('utf-8'))],
})
# This should match the numerical portion of the version numbers (we can treat
@@ -167,7 +174,7 @@ class DatabaseWrapper(BaseDatabaseWrapper):
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super(DatabaseWrapper, self).__init__(**kwargs)
self.server_version = None
-
+
self.features = DatabaseFeatures()
self.ops = DatabaseOperations()
self.client = DatabaseClient()