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diff --git a/‎MySQLdb/connections.py
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diff --git a/‎tests/capabilities.py
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+1-3Lines changed: 1 addition & 3 deletions b/‎tests/capabilities.py
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@@ -212,8 +212,12 @@ def string_literal(obj, dummy=None):
             return string_literal
 
         def _get_unicode_literal():
-            def unicode_literal(u, dummy=None):
-                return db.literal(u.encode(unicode_literal.charset))
+            if PY2:
+                def unicode_literal(u, dummy=None):
+                    return db.literal(u.encode(unicode_literal.charset))
+            else:
+                def unicode_literal(u, dummy=None):
+                    return db.literal(str(u).encode(unicode_literal.charset))
             return unicode_literal
 
         def _get_string_decoder():
 
@@ -27,10 +27,8 @@ def setUp(self):
         db = connection_factory(**self.connect_kwargs)
         self.connection = db
         self.cursor = db.cursor()
-        # TODO: this needs to be re-evaluated for Python 3
-        self.BLOBText = ''.join([chr(i) for i in range(256)] * 100);
         self.BLOBUText = u''.join([unichr(i) for i in range(16384)])
-        self.BLOBBinary = self.db_module.Binary(''.join([chr(i) for i in range(256)] * 16))
+        self.BLOBBinary = self.db_module.Binary((u''.join([unichr(i) for i in range(256)] * 16)).encode('latin1'))
 
     leak_test = True