def setUp(self): import gc db = connection_factory(**self.connect_kwargs) self.connection = db self.cursor = db.cursor() self.BLOBUText = u''.join([unichr(i) for i in range(16384)]) self.BLOBBinary = self.db_module.Binary((u''.join([unichr(i) for i in range(256)] * 16)).encode('latin1'))