import sys

class PlayoffDB(object):

    db_cursor = None
    DATABASE_NOT_CONFIGURED_WARNING = 'WARNING: database not configured'

    def __init__(self, settings):
        reload(sys)
        sys.setdefaultencoding("latin1")
        import mysql.connector
        self.database = mysql.connector.connect(
            user=settings['user'],
            password=settings['pass'],
            host=settings['host'],
            port=settings['port'])
        self.db_cursor = self.database.cursor(buffered=True)

    def get_cursor(self):
        return self.db_cursor

    def __execute_query(self, db_name, sql, params):
        self.db_cursor.execute(sql.replace('#db#', db_name), params)

    def fetch(self, db_name, sql, params):
        import mysql.connector
        try:
            self.__execute_query(db_name, sql, params)
            row = self.db_cursor.fetchone()
            return row
        except mysql.connector.Error as e:
            raise IOError(
                message=str(e), filename=db_name,
                errno=e.errno, strerror=str(e))

    def fetch_all(self, db_name, sql, params):
        import mysql.connector
        try:
            self.__execute_query(db_name, sql, params)
            results = self.db_cursor.fetchall()
            return results
        except mysql.connector.Error as e:
            raise IOError(
                message=str(e), filename=db_name,
                errno=e.errno, strerror=str(e))

@@ -969,105 +969,32 @@
 ror(
-%0A                message=str(e), filename=db_name,%0A                errno=e.errno, strerror=str(e)
+e.errno, str(e), db_name
 )%0A%0A 

Fix for rethrowing mysql.connector.Error as IOError