How to return str from MySQL using mysql.connector?

Question

I\'m trying to use MySQL Connector/Python from mysql.com with Python 3.

I have tables in UTF-8 coding, and when I fetch the rows, all my chars columns returned like

Answer 1

An easy way to solve this issue is to make sure that you are retrieving 'strings' from your MySQL table. To do so, you just have to add a CAST in your query as follows:

 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import mysql.connector
con = mysql.connector.connect( user ="root", db = "vg_site_db", charset = 'utf8' )
cursor = con.cursor()
sql = "select CAST(caption as CHAR(50)) from domains"
cursor.execute( sql )
row = cursor.fetchone()
while row is not None:
    print( row )
    row = cursor.fetchone()

This should work for you.