I tried the command line "python2.6 gourmet" and received the
following.  Anyone working on the code ought to be able to take this
traceback and determine what was wrong.  I still only get the splash
screen.

usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/gtk_extras/thumbnail.py:1:
DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import Image, urllib, md5, os.path, os, StringIO
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sqlalchemy/util.py:7:
DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
  import inspect, itertools, new, operator, sets, sys, warnings,
weakref
Loading  gnomeprint  failed: trying  win
Loading  win  failed: trying  lpr
Connecting to file  /home/ron/.gourmet/recipes.db
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gourmet", line 35, in <module>
    gourmet.GourmetRecipeManager.startGUI()
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/GourmetRecipeManager.py", line 708,
in startGUI
    r=RecGui(splash_label=splash.label)
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/GourmetRecipeManager.py", line 912,
in __init__
    GourmetApplication.__init__(self, splash_label=splash_label)
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/GourmetRecipeManager.py", line 114,
in __init__
    self.setup_shopping()
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/GourmetRecipeManager.py", line 222,
in setup_shopping
    self.sl = shopgui.ShopGui(self, conv=self.conv)
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/shopgui.py", line 29, in __init__
    self.data,self.pantry=self.grabIngsFromRecs([])
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/shopgui.py", line 580, in grabIngsFromRecs
    self.sh = recipeManager.DatabaseShopper(lst, self.rg.rd, conv=self.conv)
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/recipeManager.py", line 25, in __init__
    shopping.Shopper.__init__(self,lst)
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/shopping.py", line 46, in __init__
    self.init_orgdic()
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/recipeManager.py", line 38, in init_orgdic
    self.orgdic[k]=v
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/backends/db.py", line 1816, in __setitem__
    row = self.db.fetch_one(self.vw,**{self.kp:k})
  File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/backends/db.py", line 623, in fetch_one
    return table.select(*make_simple_select_arg(criteria,table)).execute().fetchone()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sqlalchemy/sql/expression.py",
line 1087, in execute
    return e.execute_clauseelement(self, multiparams, params)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py",
line 1219, in execute_clauseelement
    return connection.execute_clauseelement(elem, multiparams, params)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py",
line 895, in execute_clauseelement
    return self._execute_compiled(elem.compile(dialect=self.dialect,
column_keys=keys, inline=len(params) > 1), distilled_params=params)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py",
line 907, in _execute_compiled
    self.__execute_raw(context)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py",
line 916, in __execute_raw
    self._cursor_execute(context.cursor, context.statement,
context.parameters[0], context=context)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py",
line 960, in _cursor_execute
    self._handle_dbapi_exception(e, statement, parameters, cursor)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py",
line 942, in _handle_dbapi_exception
    raise exceptions.DBAPIError.instance(statement, parameters, e,
connection_invalidated=is_disconnect)
sqlalchemy.exceptions.ProgrammingError: (ProgrammingError) You must
not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can
interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly
recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode
strings. u'SELECT shopcats.ingkey, shopcats.shopcategory,
shopcats.position \nFROM shopcats \nWHERE shopcats.ingkey = ?'
['pepper, jalape\xc3\xb1o']