MySQL hardcoding?

[John Machin]

marexposed at googlemail.com wrote:
> I've got this error (see the path in last line)
> 
>     db=MySQLdb.connect(host='localhost',use_unicode = True, charset = "Windows-1251",user='root',passwd='12',db='articulos')

Can't help with the answer to your question, but this may stave off yet 
another question:

The empirical evidence from other recent postings is that you are 
mucking about with Spanish-language newspaper "articulos" on the web ... 
so why charset = "Windows-1251", which is Cyrillic (i.e. Russian etc)?? 
Perhaps you mean 1252 which is Microsoft's latin1 with extras.

HTH,
John