Android Pyroid3, Kick Web Server with MySQL - Unknown character set: utf8mb4

In Pyroid3, I re-installed mysql-connector-python so I could write python scripts that read MySQL tables.
Upon running a python script that worked a year ago, I now get "Unknown character set: utf8mb4"

Apparently this error occurs when your MySQL version is less than 5.5.3.

Kick Web Server is running 5.1.62.

Resolved error by specifying the charset in the python script's mysql connection.