Make load.py more idiomatic.

[zzz-pokedex.git] / pokedex / db / __init__.py

diff --git a/pokedex/db/__init__.py b/pokedex/db/__init__.py
index e2790da..aa540a2 100644 (file)
--- a/pokedex/db/__init__.py
+++ b/pokedex/db/__init__.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def connect(uri=None, session_args={}, engine_args={}, engine_prefix=''):
         uri = get_default_db_uri()
 
     ### Do some fixery for MySQL
-    if uri[0:5] == 'mysql':
+    if uri.startswith('mysql:'):
         # MySQL uses latin1 for connections by default even if the server is
         # otherwise oozing with utf8; charset fixes this
         if 'charset' not in uri: