[ticket:318] has a user receiving back a unicode from a SHOW CREATE TABLE for some...

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/databases/mysql.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/databases/mysql.py
index f833489d224071efc3ce6c2f09e802dd33e056cc..0685397d738cd4180a87c4238688a13da7bfcc8b 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/databases/mysql.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/databases/mysql.py
@@ -377,7 +377,9 @@ class MySQLDialect(ansisql.ANSIDialect):
         """
         c = connection.execute("SHOW CREATE TABLE " + table.name, {})
         desc_fetched = c.fetchone()[1]
-        if type(desc_fetched) is not str:
+        if type(desc_fetched) is unicode:
+            desc_fetched = str(desc_fetched)
+        elif type(desc_fetched) is not str:
             # may get array.array object here, depending on version (such as mysql 4.1.14 vs. 4.1.11)
             desc_fetched = desc_fetched.tostring()
         desc = desc_fetched.strip()