Re: psycopg2.Error.pgerror encoding ?

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:26:30AM +0000, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:

> > I have a simple (?) question regarding psycopg2.Error
> >
> >         http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/module.html#exceptions
> >
> > Which encoding is the string attribute .pgerror
> > going to be in ?
>
> In Python 2 it will be in the connection encoding; specifically we
> receive the 8-bit message from the backend and we just create a Python
> string out of that data, without re-checking the data is valid in that
> encoding (we trust the database).

In other words:

    unicode(exception.pgerror, exception.cursor.connection.encoding, 'replace')

"should" do the "right" thing ?

Karsten
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