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

Have you tried to pass the unicode string directly:

cursor.execute("select * from musiclibrary where absolutepath = ?;",(u'namé',))

You will need to add the file encoding at the beginning of the script:

# coding: utf-8