Blob as bytes or bytearray?

[lucianobarcaro]

Hi,
I'm trying to use mysql-p3 and I saw that blobs (images in my case) are fetched as str.
Which is the best way to get blobs into bytes (old str in python2?)

[davispuh]

I don't really remember specifics... but it probably should be binary string/bytes if that's not so then it might be a bug. anyway from one to another you can convert with encode/decode

b'binary string'.decode('ascii') # to str
'text string'.encode('ascii') # to bytes

you can also try utf-8 encoding, it was really long time ago I worked on this... you might have to try to debug it a bit more and see if there might be a bug regarding this.

[lucianobarcaro]

I did a workaround (don't know if my solution is the right one or if I did at the right place - but it works).

What I did in _mysql.c (briefly):
added another parameter in _mysql_field_to_python indicating if field has binary flag or not.
and if it has, returns PyBytes_FromStringAndSize.