[Python-modules-commits] [sqlobject] 15/15: More work on NEWS

[Neil Muller]

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commit 701e6ce7fb182b75e28e2ec32a63f3854a6191e7
Author: Neil Muller <drnlmuller+debian at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 29 17:09:10 2016 +0200

    More work on NEWS
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 debian/NEWS | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index 406aa03..5c67665 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,24 @@ sqlobject (3.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
   been moved to the python-sqlobject-bin package and the documentation
   has been moved to the python-sqlobject-doc package.
 
+  The following behaviour changes between Python 2 and Python 3 are important:
+
+  * In Python 3, BLOBCol now accepts and returns bytes, rather than strings as
+    it did in Python 2.
+  * In Python 3, StringCol now accepts arbitrary Unicode strings.
+  * The dbEncoding parameter to UnicodeCol has no effect in Python 3 code,
+    as this is now handled by the underlying database layer. The parameter
+    is still available for those writing Python 2 compatible code.
+
+  Also note that, when using Python 3 and MySQL, the default encoding
+  on MySQL is "latin1", which can cause problems with general Unicode
+  strings. The SQLObject authors recommend specifying the character
+  set as "utf8" to avoid problems in this case.
+
+  For more information on the changes between Python 2 and Python 3,
+  see /usr/share/doc/python-sqlobject-doc/Python3.txt from the
+  python-sqlobject-doc package.
+
   The helper applications use python 3 by default. If you need to run
   them under python 2, you will need to explicitly specify the
   python interpreter: "/usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/sqlobject-admin <options>".

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