# encoding.py - show to change client encoding (and test it works) # -*- encoding: utf8 -*- # # Copyright (C) 2004-2010 Federico Di Gregorio # # psycopg2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published # by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # psycopg2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public # License for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting) import sys import psycopg2 import psycopg2.extensions if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print("Opening connection using dsn:", DSN) conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) print("Initial encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding) print("\n** This example is supposed to be run in a UNICODE terminal! **\n") print("Available encodings:") encs = psycopg2.extensions.encodings.items() encs.sort() for a, b in encs: print(" ", a, "<->", b) print("Using STRING typecaster") print("Setting backend encoding to LATIN1 and executing queries:") conn.set_client_encoding('LATIN1') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", ('àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", unicode(x, 'latin-1').encode('utf-8'), type(x)) curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", unicode(x, 'latin-1').encode('utf-8'), type(x)) print("Setting backend encoding to UTF8 and executing queries:") conn.set_client_encoding('UNICODE') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù'.encode('utf-8'),)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", x, type(x)) curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", x, type(x)) print("Using UNICODE typecaster") psycopg2.extensions.register_type(psycopg2.extensions.UNICODE) print("Setting backend encoding to LATIN1 and executing queries:") conn.set_client_encoding('LATIN1') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", ('àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x)) curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x)) print("Setting backend encoding to UTF8 and executing queries:") conn.set_client_encoding('UNICODE') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù'.encode('utf-8'),)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x)) curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x)) print("Executing full UNICODE queries") print("Setting backend encoding to LATIN1 and executing queries:") conn.set_client_encoding('LATIN1') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute(u"SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", ('àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x)) curs.execute(u"SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x)) print("Setting backend encoding to UTF8 and executing queries:") conn.set_client_encoding('UNICODE') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute(u"SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù'.encode('utf-8'),)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x)) curs.execute(u"SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print(" ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x))