pysqlite2: ProgrammingError - You must not use 8-bit bytestrings

Question

I\'m currently persisting filenames in a sqlite database for my own purposes. Whenever I try to insert a file that has a special character (like é etc.), it throws the follo

Answer 1

You need to specify the encoding of filename for conversion to Unicode, for example: filename.decode('utf-8'). Just using unicode(...) picks the console encoding, which is often unreliable (and often ascii).