jeremiah wrote: >> Well that's certainly a good idea, > > Sorry, I was being glib. =)
Yeah, don't worry, I was just playing along... ;-) > I am not sure where the problem lies, you may want to look at > debian's BTS to see if there is a similar problem or try to find out > who the Ubuntu package maintainer is for the python-mysql package. > > I tried to fix this as well but it was nearly impossible and there is > little or no help from upstream. Looks like the debian package (which is probably the same) has the same unsolved problem. I'll try and get in touch with the Ubuntu people. > We eventually left python for php. That's discouraging: I'm in the process of switching from PHP to python (for scripting, not web applications) because I'm about to start a big project that requires a lot of interaction between python and MySQL. Thanks a lot for your help, I'll let you know if I come up with a better solution. Eros -- UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode certain bytes https://launchpad.net/bugs/57067 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs