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Encoding issue in python using mysql connector python

I have written a python script which get data from database and process it. Initially I was using pymysql for connecting database which I changed to MySQL Connector for python. When I started using MySQL Connector I am getting following issue

'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 14-16: ordinal not in range(128)

I tried by adding charset settings of MySQL Connector but issue still persists.

Do anyone have idea on this issue?

Solution
    1. make sure that in your table you have specified a ascii encoding

    Example: 

    CREATE TABLE t1(
     col1 char, 
     ....,
     ....,
     ....
)Engine=InnoDB charset=ascii;
    1. In the MySQL-Python connector specify assci encoding and enable unicode

    db = MySQLdb.connect( host="localhost", port=3306, user="john", passwd="megajonhy", db="jonhydb", use_unicode=True, charset='ascii' )

    I believe that by default use_unicode is set to False, and thus by setting it True you will fix the issue.