Datetime '0000-00-00' maps to None about mysqldb1 HOT 2 CLOSED

It's by design (obviously), but I am considering returning MySQL date values which cannot be turned into Python dates as the original string value, for version 1.3.

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I guess introducing backward-incompatible changes in minor version is generally a bad idea. Not only it may break a lot of code out there (which will be hard-to-debug as no string was expected). But also it'll make date values more inconsistent. Now it's clear that either you get datetime.datetime or NoneType for a date column value. So I think it's a special enough case for a developer who absolutely needs this quirky zero values, to either cast columns in the query to CHAR directly, or to redefine MySQLdb converters.

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