> That was the problem I had.  I'm using MySQL 4.0, and with a BLOB type
> it returns unicode,

Thats strange, it shouldn't return a unicode object??! It returns an
array.array object for me.
Btw, Im using MySQLdb 1.2.0 and MySQL 4.1.11

> which pickle refuses to accept, even when I str()
> it.  Do you know how to get pickle to accept it?  You mentioned an
> attachment but there isn't any.

Argh. I hate it when this happens, here it goes...

> I've also heard there are certain binary values that can't be
> represented in SQL and you have to use an escape function, but I didn't
> see any SQL escape function that looked suitable.  Maybe MySQLdb handles
> that automatically.

Probably MySQLdb does that automatically.

> If we could use a BLOB we could advance to pickle protocol 3, which
> would be better for new-style instances in the session.

Can you send me a patch to enable that, so that I can test it?


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