Question

Given the following input string:

(?i:\bsys\.user_catalog\b)

Stored into sqlite TEXT field. When retrieved with select, I get the following:

When doing simple command line, e.g.

$ sqlite3 databse.name "select a from b" > file.results

It appear in the editor like this:

When I use, python’s sqlite3 lib, it prints out as:

(?i:\x08sys\\.user_catalog\x08) 

Questions are:

1. Will switching to BLOB, will solve this for me?
2. Is there a way to stay TEXT and still get it done right.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

A couple of ideas:

• Make sure the string was originally input as raw so that the escaping doesn’t take place before you store it.

• I think TEXT will work as well as BLOB but you may have to confirm by experiment.

• Store as a buffer object: c.execute('INSERT INTO documents VALUES (?, ?)', (somekey, buffer(yourstring)))