asda?‰PNG  IHDR ? f ??C1 sRGB ??é gAMA ±? üa pHYs ? ??o¨d GIDATx^íüL”÷e÷Y?a?("Bh?_ò???¢§?q5k?*:t0A-o??¥]VkJ¢M??f?±8\k2íll£1]q?ù???T import sqlite3 con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:") cur = con.cursor() AUSTRIA = "Österreich" # by default, rows are returned as str cur.execute("select ?", (AUSTRIA,)) row = cur.fetchone() assert row[0] == AUSTRIA # but we can make sqlite3 always return bytestrings ... con.text_factory = bytes cur.execute("select ?", (AUSTRIA,)) row = cur.fetchone() assert type(row[0]) is bytes # the bytestrings will be encoded in UTF-8, unless you stored garbage in the # database ... assert row[0] == AUSTRIA.encode("utf-8") # we can also implement a custom text_factory ... # here we implement one that appends "foo" to all strings con.text_factory = lambda x: x.decode("utf-8") + "foo" cur.execute("select ?", ("bar",)) row = cur.fetchone() assert row[0] == "barfoo" con.close()