Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gourmet", line 35, in 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 112, in __init__ self.setup_recipes() # Setup recipe database File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/GourmetRecipeManager.py", line 202, in setup_recipes self.rd = recipeManager.default_rec_manager() File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/recipeManager.py", line 134, in default_rec_manager return get_recipe_manager(**dbargs) File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/recipeManager.py", line 129, in get_recipe_manager return RecipeManager(**args) File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/backends/db.py", line 1648, in __init__ self.km = keymanager.get_keymanager(rm=self) File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/keymanager.py", line 524, in get_keymanager return KeyManager(*args,**kwargs) File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/keymanager.py", line 40, in __init__ self.initialize_from_defaults() File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/keymanager.py", line 46, in initialize_from_defaults self.rm.add_ing_to_keydic(i,key) File "/usr/share/gourmet/gourmet/backends/db.py", line 1504, in add_ing_to_keydic row = self.fetch_one(self.keylookup_table, item=item, ingkey=key) 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) 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 keylookup.id, keylookup.word, keylookup.item, keylookup.ingkey, keylookup.count \nFROM keylookup \nWHERE keylookup.ingkey = ? AND keylookup.item = ?' ['pepper, jalape\xc3\xb1o', 'jalape\xc3\xb1o pepper']