JSON type fails in Python 3 w/ any string, Python 2 w/ non-ascii data #488
Description
The JSON string comes back as bytes on Python 3 which is not what json.loads() expects. This is also inconsistent vs. mysqlclient. I'm not 100% sure there isn't something else that makes this work, since I had some trouble reproducing and I thought maybe it was working in 0.7.1, but now it's not working there either.
import MySQLdb
import pymysql
import json
def run_test(dbapi):
print("Running DBAPI: %s" % dbapi)
conn = dbapi.connect(user='scott', passwd='tiger', db="test", charset='utf8', use_unicode=0)
cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.execute("drop table if exists json_test")
cursor.execute("create table json_test (data JSON)")
cursor.execute("insert into json_test (data) values (%s)", ['{"foo": "bar"}'])
cursor.execute("select data from json_test")
result = cursor.fetchone()[0]
print(json.loads(result))
run_test(MySQLdb)
run_test(pymysql)
output:
Running DBAPI: <module 'MySQLdb' from '/opt/python3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py'>
{'foo': 'bar'}
Running DBAPI: <module 'pymysql' from '/opt/python3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pymysql/__init__.py'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 20, in <module>
run_test(pymysql)
File "test.py", line 17, in run_test
print(json.loads(result))
File "/opt/python3.5/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py", line 312, in loads
s.__class__.__name__))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'