Yes. If it is bytes type then the data stored by the database will be a BLOB,
not TEXT ...
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: sqlite-users <sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org> On
>Behalf Of Peng Yu
>Sent: Thursday, 30 January, 2020 02:24
>To: SQLite mailing list <sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org>
>Subject: Re: [sqlite] Is it necessary to encode() for file names in sqlar
>format?
>
>So to confirm. In python 3, the str type should be used for name? Thanks.
>
>On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:58 AM Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com>
>wrote:
>
>>
>> sys.argv is a list of unicode text strings. There is no need to
>> specifically encode or decode it so long as sys.getdefaultencoding()
>> returns 'utf-8'. If your version of Python is so old that it returns
>> something else then you need to modify site.py and have it set the
>default
>> encoding to 'utf-8' otherwise you may end up with MBCS or some other
>> invalid text encoding in your database text fields.
>>
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>> The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven
>says
>> a lot about anticipated traffic volume.
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: sqlite-users <sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org> On
>> >Behalf Of Peng Yu
>> >Sent: Wednesday, 29 January, 2020 22:57
>> >To: SQLite mailing list <sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org>
>> >Subject: [sqlite] Is it necessary to encode() for file names in sqlar
>> >format?
>> >
>> >I use the following python3 code to create sqlar file. Is it necessary
>> >to sys.argv[2].encode('utf-8') in the line of execute()? In other
>> >word, does the native sqlar tools inteprete the name column as an
>> >encoded value or a non-encode value? Thanks.
>> >
>> >import sqlite3
>> >conn=sqlite3.connect(sys.argv[1])
>> >c=conn.cursor()
>> >c.execute('''
>> >CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS sqlar(
>> >name TEXT PRIMARY KEY
>> >, mode INT
>> >, mtime INT
>> >, sz INT
>> >, data BLOB)
>> >''')
>> >
>> >import zlib
>> >data = sys.stdin.buffer.read()
>> >c.execute('REPLACE INTO sqlar VALUES(?, ?, ?, ?, ?)', [sys.argv[2], 0,
>> >0, len(data), zlib.compress(data)])
>> >conn.commit()
>> >
>> >--
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>> >Peng
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