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 figured this out already, but:

I don't think you could actually get that ProgrammingError exception from cursor.execute("select * from musiclibrary where absolutepath = ?;", [filename.decode("utf-8")]), as the question currently states.

Either the utf-8 decode would explode, or the cursor.execute call would be happy with the result.