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Python encoding for swedish charachters

I'm using scrapy to extract data from a web site. I'm saving the data to a mysql database using MysqlDB. The script works for english sites, but when I try it on a swedish site i get: ...
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mysql in python encoding

This post is the same with my question in MySQL in Python: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' this is just to clear things up. I am trying to save a string to a MySQL database but I get an error: ...
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MySQL-Python character encoding exception on db insert

I am getting the following Exception when trying to save a row to a db: Unexpected error: (<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>, UnicodeEncodeError('latin-1', u"First 'A\u043a' Last", 7, 8, ...
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python encoding problem with mysqldb

I have troubles with encoding in python while using xlrd and mysqldb. I am reading an excel file which contains Turkish characters in it. When I print the value like that print ...
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Does the MySQLdb module in python returns utf8 encoding or unicode in this case?

Using MySQLdb I connect to a database where everything is stored in the utf8 encoding. If I do cursor.execute("SET NAMES utf8") and fetch some data from the database by another statement. Does ...