mkleehammer/pyodbc — pull request #30 by Lexcon (2014-12-18 11:09:45+00:00)
Title: Possibility to explicitely set connections to return ANSI bytestrings in...

Added Possibility to explicitely set connections to return ANSI bytestrings in Py3 using unicode_results = False (it will default to true in Py3). This allows use of bytearrays in case of databases that are not properly unicode encoded.

This patch does add functionality but does not affect any other code paths so is fully compatible. Arguably it makes functioning of the module more congruent with the parameters you can pass. More important It might help adoption of py3 by facilitating certain py2-to-py3 legacy issues.