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Asked: 2026-05-25T22:35:59+00:00

I am having a unicode problem and, as everytime I have something related I’m

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I am having a unicode problem and, as everytime I have something related I’m completely lost..

One of my Django template renders a TypeError :

Exception Value:    

coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, long found

The line giving trouble is just a string ( which I want to use in a mysql query) :

query = unicode('''(SELECT asset_name, asset_description, asset_id, etat_id, etat_name FROM Asset LEFT OUTER JOIN Etat ON etat_id_asset=asset_id WHERE asset_id_proj='''+proj+''' AND asset_id_type='''+t.type_id+''' ORDER BY asset_name, asset_description) UNION (SELECT asset_name, asset_description, asset_id, 'NULL', 'NULL' FROM Asset WHERE asset_id_proj='''+proj+''' AND asset_id_type='''+t.type_id+''' AND asset_id IN (SELECT etat_id_asset FROM Etat)); ''')

What can be wrong here ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I know you figured out a better way to accomplish, but to answer the original question, in case you get that error again somewhere else in the project:

    t.type_id appears to be a long integer. You cannot mix integers in strings unless you convert to string, this is really simple:

    myString = 'some string with type id ' + str(t.type_id) + ', and whatever else you want in the string.'
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