Saving Python Pickled objects in MySQL db

Question

I am pickling Python Objects in Django and saving it in MySQL db. So far i have followed these simple rules:

1. cPickle.dumps(object) #to convert

Answer 1

If you are trying to store the output of cPickle.dumps in a VARCHAR column, then your issue is that you are trying to store a byte-string in a character column. The fix in that case is to encode your object as unicode(base64.encode(cPickle.dumps(myobject))) and then store it.

Alternatively:

object2varchar = lambda obj: unicode(base64.encode(cPickle.dumps(obj)))
store(object2varchar([1, 'foo']))