# 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 dns:", 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)