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+<!--- Provide a general summary of the issue in the Title above -->
+
+<!--- IMPORTANT NOTE: --->
+<!--- This project is maintained one busy person having frail wife and infant daughter. --->
+<!--- My time and energy is very limited resource. I'm not teacher or free tech support. --->
+<!--- Don't ask a question here.  Don't file an issue until you believe it's a not problem of your code. --->
+<!--- Search friendly volunteer who teach you or investigate your problem on ML or Q&A site. --->
+
+
+## Expected Behavior
+<!--- If you're describing a bug, tell us what should happen -->
+<!--- If you're suggesting a change/improvement, tell us how it should work -->
+
+## Current Behavior
+<!--- If describing a bug, tell us what happens instead of the expected behavior -->
+<!--- If suggesting a change/improvement, explain the difference from current behavior -->
+
+## Possible Solution
+<!--- Not obligatory, but suggest a fix/reason for the bug, -->
+<!--- or ideas how to implement the addition or change -->
+
+## Executable script to reproduce (for bugs)
+
+<!--- Overwrite following code and schema --->
+
+code:
+```python
+import pymysql.cursors
+
+# Connect to the database
+connection = pymysql.connect(host='localhost',
+                             user='user',
+                             password='passwd',
+                             db='db',
+                             charset='utf8mb4',
+                             cursorclass=pymysql.cursors.DictCursor)
+
+try:
+    with connection.cursor() as cursor:
+        # Create a new record
+        sql = "INSERT INTO `users` (`email`, `password`) VALUES (%s, %s)"
+        cursor.execute(sql, ('webmaster@python.org', 'very-secret'))
+
+    # connection is not autocommit by default. So you must commit to save
+    # your changes.
+    connection.commit()
+
+    with connection.cursor() as cursor:
+        # Read a single record
+        sql = "SELECT `id`, `password` FROM `users` WHERE `email`=%s"
+        cursor.execute(sql, ('webmaster@python.org',))
+        result = cursor.fetchone()
+        print(result)
+finally:
+    connection.close()
+```
+
+schema:
+```sql
+CREATE TABLE `users` (
+    `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
+    `email` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,
+    `password` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,
+    PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
+) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin
+AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;
+```
+
+## Tracebacks (for bugs)
+
+```
+paste here
+```
+
+## Context
+<!--- How has this issue affected you? What are you trying to accomplish? -->
+<!--- Providing context helps us come up with a solution that is most useful in the real world -->
+
+## Your Environment
+<!--- Include as many relevant details about the environment you experienced the bug in -->
+
+* Operating System and version:
+* Python version and build (cygwin, python.org, homebrew, pyenv, Linux distribution's package, PyPy etc...)
+* PyMySQL Version used:
+* my.cnf if possible.  If you don't have it, related system variables like [connection encoding](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset-connection.html).