Halibutt, not at all, thanks very much for bringing it up! I learned about
pymysql as a result and that should improve matters. It is always good to
speak your mind :)
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Halibutt <halibutt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dan, it wasn’t meant to be an accusation, believe me.
Also, let me take
this opportunity to thank you all for this excellent tool.
Cheers
*From:* wikimetrics-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
wikimetrics-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Dan Andreescu
*Sent:* Sunday, May 31, 2015 2:28 PM
*To:* wikimetrics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimetrics] How to report a problem?
Thanks a lot, this indeed seems to have been the root of all problems.
Wikimetrics now works like a charm, not a single error this time. On a
wider note, many American-designed pieces of software have a problem with
non-Latin 1 characters (for instance both Picasa and Content Translation
had Alt+s shortcut reserved for saving, whereas it’s the only way most of
us write ą, one of the letters of the Polish alphabet). I wouldn’t have
guessed that the problem here might be with the very existence of non-Latin
1 signs anywhere in the data. Thanks for spotting it – and for your
assistance.
Cheers
This is actually not as American-centric as would seem on the surface. We
really worked very *very* hard to design Wikimetrics to account for any
unicode characters. It's just that Python 2 is *the worst* language in the
world at dealing with this problem (except maybe assembly?) And sadly the
mysql python driver seems determined to never support Python 3.
As the guy who chose these libraries unaware of the terrible unicode
handling, I want to take this opportunity to apologize :) And to say that
we're not ignoring unicode, it's just complicated.
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