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diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/connectors/mysqldb.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/connectors/mysqldb.py
index 33e59218b..e4efb2201 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/connectors/mysqldb.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/connectors/mysqldb.py
@@ -128,36 +128,17 @@ class MySQLDBConnector(Connector):
def _detect_charset(self, connection):
"""Sniff out the character set in use for connection results."""
- # Note: MySQL-python 1.2.1c7 seems to ignore changes made
- # on a connection via set_character_set()
- if self.server_version_info < (4, 1, 0):
- try:
- return connection.connection.character_set_name()
- except AttributeError:
- # < 1.2.1 final MySQL-python drivers have no charset support.
- # a query is needed.
- pass
-
- # Prefer 'character_set_results' for the current connection over the
- # value in the driver. SET NAMES or individual variable SETs will
- # change the charset without updating the driver's view of the world.
- #
- # If it's decided that issuing that sort of SQL leaves you SOL, then
- # this can prefer the driver value.
- rs = connection.execute("SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%%'")
- opts = dict([(row[0], row[1]) for row in self._compat_fetchall(rs)])
-
- if 'character_set_results' in opts:
- return opts['character_set_results']
try:
- return connection.connection.character_set_name()
+ # note: the SQL here would be
+ # "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%%'"
+ cset_name = connection.connection.character_set_name
except AttributeError:
- # Still no charset on < 1.2.1 final...
- if 'character_set' in opts:
- return opts['character_set']
- else:
- util.warn(
- "Could not detect the connection character set with this "
- "combination of MySQL server and MySQL-python. "
- "MySQL-python >= 1.2.2 is recommended. Assuming latin1.")
- return 'latin1'
+ util.warn(
+ "No 'character_set_name' can be detected with "
+ "this MySQL-Python version; "
+ "please upgrade to a recent version of MySQL-Python. "
+ "Assuming latin1.")
+ return 'latin1'
+ else:
+ return cset_name()
+