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

Try to change to this:

cursor.execute("select * from musiclibrary where absolutepath = ?;",
    [unicode(filename,'utf8')])

In your filename origin not encode with utf8, change utf8 to your encoding.