Problems Writing =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A3?= (pound sterling) To MS SQLServer using pymssql

[Darren Mansell]

Hi.

I'm relatively new to python so please be gentle :)

I'm trying to write a £ symbol to an MS SQL server using pymsssql . This
works but when selecting the data back (e.g. using SQL management
studio) the £ symbol is replaced with £ (latin capital letter A with
circumflex).

I can reproduce it like so:

>>con = pymssql.connect (host='testdb', user='testuser' ,password='pass word',database= 'test')
sql = "insert into table_1 values ('£')"
cur.execute(s ql)
con.commit( )
sql = "insert into table_1 values ('1')"
cur.execute(s ql)
con.commit( )
sql = "select * from table_1"
cur.execute(s ql)
cur.fetchall( )

[('\xc2\xa3',), ('1',)]

If I insert a £ symbol in using SQL management studio then select it back from Python I get this:

[('\xc2\xa3',), ('1',), ('\xa3',)]

If I look in SQL management studio it says this:

£

for the inserts I do through Python/pymssql.

Does anyone have any ideas whats happening and how to fix it?

Thanks

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Darren Mansell <da************ @opengi.co.uk>

[MRAB]

On Nov 17, 2:52*pm, Darren Mansell <darren.mans... @opengi.co.uk>
wrote:

Hi.

I'm relatively new to python so please be gentle :)

I'm trying to write a £ symbol to an MS SQL server using pymsssql . This
works but when selecting the data back (e.g. using SQL management
studio) the £ symbol is replaced with £ (latin capital letter A with
circumflex).

I can reproduce it like so:

>con = pymssql.connect (host='testdb', user='testuser' ,password='pass word',database= 'test')
sql = "insert into table_1 values ('£')"
cur.execute(sq l)
con.commit()
sql = "insert into table_1 values ('1')"
cur.execute(sq l)
con.commit()
sql = "select * from table_1"
cur.execute(sq l)
cur.fetchall ()

[('\xc2\xa3',), ('1',)]

If I insert a £ symbol in using SQL management studio then select it back from Python I get this:

[('\xc2\xa3',), ('1',), ('\xa3',)]

If I look in SQL management studio it says this:

£

for the inserts I do through Python/pymssql.

Does anyone have any ideas whats happening and how to fix it?

Thanks

I recommend that you work with Unicode wherever possible. If pymssql
can't handle Unicode then use UTF-8 when talking to it. The result
should look something like this:

>>con = pymssql.connect (host='testdb', user='testuser' ,password='pass word',database= 'test')
sql = u"insert into table_1 values ('£')".encode(" utf-8")
cur.execute(s ql)
con.commit( )
sql = u"insert into table_1 values ('1')".encode(" utf-8")
cur.execute(s ql)
con.commit( )
sql = u"select * from table_1".encode ("utf-8")
cur.execute(s ql)
result = cur.fetchall()
result

[('\xc2\xa3',), ('1',)]

You'll then need to decode from UTF-8:

>>[tuple(field.dec ode("utf-8") for field in row) for row in result]

[(u'\xa3',), (u'1',)]

>>print u'\xa3'

£