id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 6052,SafeUnicode is not type.UnicodeType in _mysql.connection.escape,Alexander,nobody,"Hello. {{{cleaned_data['content']}}} is type `django.utils.safestring.SafeUnicode` This get error when recording in a database. Because, the function can only identify unicode or any other as string. In _mysql.c: {{{ static PyObject * _escape_item( PyObject *item, PyObject *d){ PyObject *quoted=NULL, *itemtype, *itemconv; if (!(itemtype = PyObject_Type(item))) goto error; itemconv = PyObject_GetItem(d, itemtype); }}} Temporary solution to the problem: {{{unicode(cleaned_data['content'])}}} ",,closed,"Database layer (models, ORM)",dev,,fixed,UnicodeBranch UnicodeEncodeError mysqldb SafeUnicode,djbenji@… olau@… tom@… jarek.zgoda@… eric@… martin@… simon@…,Unreviewed,1,0,0,0,0,0