(Python) Using strings returned from sqlite3

In  the Python programming language, the strings returned from sqlite3 are unicode, not 8-bit strings.

Chilkat API methods with string arguments expect either ANSI or utf-8 8-bit strings.  See these Python examples:

http://www.example-code.com/python/python-source-file-encoding.asp

http://www.example-code.com/python/python-charset.asp

A unicode string returned from sqlite3 must be converted to an 8-bit string by using “str”, as shown below:

...
email.put_Subject(str(unicodeStr))
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