SQLite, python, unicode, and non-utf data

Question

I started by trying to store strings in sqlite using python, and got the message:

sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unles

Answer 1

Of course there is. But your data is already broken in the database, so you'll need to fix it:

>>> print u'Sigur Rós'.encode('latin-1').decode('utf-8')
Sigur Rós