sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings

Question

Using SQLite3 in Python, I am trying to store a compressed version of a snippet of UTF-8 HTML code.

Code looks like this:

...
c = connection.cursor()         


        

Answer 1

If you want to use 8-bit strings instead of unicode string in sqlite3, set approptiate text_factory for sqlite connection:

connection = sqlite3.connect(...)
connection.text_factory = str