Message5097

This is pretty much expected when using JDBC as MySQL treats variables 
as VARBINARY, which most JDBC drivers (definitely MySQL's) return byte[] 
for, so we return the Python analog, an array.array of bytes. You can 
convert this to a string via bytes.tostring()

A byte array here is also currently more efficient than plain Python 
strings for Jython as our str is backed by java.lang.String instead of 
being a simple byte bucket like CPython's

When we change that (in Jython 3, or possibly before) we might want to 
consider changing this behavior, but probably not until then