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mysqlclient 2.3.1 changed Connection.literal() to dispatch on exact built-in types. As reported in #813 (comment), this makes a class Foo(str, enum.Enum) member serialize as 'Foo.BAR' instead of its string value 'BAR'.

Restore isinstance() checks only for str, bytes, and bytearray, so their subclasses receive the corresponding string/byte handling. Use explicit is comparisons for tuple, list, set, and frozenset; subclasses of these containers continue to use the converter mapping. Keep the connection-aware set escaping introduced in 2.3.1.

Add coverage for string enums (including nested parameters), string/byte subclasses and binary prefixes, registered converters for container subclasses, and set/frozenset escaping under normal and NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES modes with utf8mb4 and latin1. The set tests verify round trips for quotes, backslashes, and non-ASCII characters, as well as rejection of non-string members.

Validation:

• Confirmed the enum regression tests fail before the fix.
• Python 3.12.14 / MariaDB 11.8.6: pytest --cov=MySQLdb tests — 181 passed, including SQLAlchemy tests.
• ruff format src/MySQLdb/connections.py tests/test_connection.py, ruff check src/ tests/test_connection.py, and git diff --check passed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Database values based on strings, bytes, tuples, lists, sets, and frozensets are now handled consistently with their corresponding built-in types, including subclasses.
  • String-valued enums are correctly treated as strings in database queries. Set parameters containing strings are escaped correctly across SQL modes and character sets, while sets with non-string elements raise a TypeError.

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Walkthrough

Connection.literal now uses isinstance checks for supported built-in types, so their subclasses follow the corresponding literal-conversion paths. Tests cover string-valued enums, built-in subclasses, and set and frozenset parameters.

Changes: Literal conversion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Literal conversion and validation src/MySQLdb/connections.py, tests/test_connection.py	Connection.literal uses isinstance checks for strings, bytes and bytearrays, tuples and lists, and sets and frozensets. Tests cover enum literals, built-in subclasses, set parameter round-trips, and TypeError for non-string set elements.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Low · up to c9619

The change restores handling of str-backed enums and other string and bytes subclasses in literal conversion. One new test accepts the text form of a bytearray subclass as the stored value, so bytearray payloads can still be stored as their repr. That bytearray handling predates this PR, so the risk is bounded and can be followed up separately.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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The title names the core change: restoring isinstance checks for string and byte literal handling in Connection.literal. The raw summary and objectives also cover tuples, lists, sets, and frozensets, which the title omits. That omission is partial scope, not a mismatch, so the title still describes a real part of the main change.

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- Around line 55-56: Update _bytes_literal to convert bytearray inputs to bytes
before passing them to _mysql_string_literal, so escaping preserves the payload.
In the test, expect b"BAR" when binary_prefix is true and "BAR" otherwise; do
not use str(value) as the expected database value.

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Check the bytearray payload, not its object representation.

This assertion accepts str(value) as the database value even though the input contains b"BAR". _bytes_literal() passes the bytearray to _mysql_string_literal(), which handles non-bytes objects through PyObject_Str(). The test therefore accepts representation text in place of the binary payload. This implementation behavior predates the assertion; the new test makes it the expected result. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Expect b"BAR" when binary_prefix=True and "BAR" otherwise. Normalize the bytearray to bytes before escaping so the test verifies preservation of its contents.

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Review comment at @tests/test_connection.py around lines 55 - 56:
Update _bytes_literal to convert bytearray inputs to bytes before passing them to _mysql_string_literal, so escaping preserves the payload. In the test, expect b"BAR" when binary_prefix is true and "BAR" otherwise; do not use str(value) as the expected database value.

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