Python: How to query utf-8 string from sqlite database -

i'm trying insert arabic words in sqlite database query these words. i'm facing result me : ('\xd9\x85\xd8\xb1\xd8\xad\xd8\xa8\xd8\xa7\xd9\x8b',)

so here simple code explain i'm doing :

# coding: utf-8  import sys; reload(sys).setdefaultencoding("utf-8")  import sqlite3  class database(object):      def execute_db(self, *args):         db = sqlite3.connect("sqlite3.db")         db.text_factory = str         cur = db.cursor()         data = true         try:             args = list(args)             args[0] = args[0].replace("%s", "?")             args = tuple(args)             cur.execute(*args)             arg = args[0].split()[0].lower()             if arg in ["update", "insert", "delete", "create"]: db.commit()         except exception, data:             data = false             db.rollback()         db.commit()         db.close()         return data      def fetch_one(self, *args):         db = sqlite3.connect("sqlite3.db")         db.text_factory = str         try: cur = db.cursor()         except: return none         data = none         try:             args = list(args)             args[0] = args[0].replace("%s", "?")             args = tuple(args)             cur.execute(*args)             try: data = cur.fetchone()             except exception, data: data = none         except exception, data:             data = none             db.rollback()         db.close()         return data   class start(database):     def __init__(self):         self.execute_db("create table test(title text)")         self.execute_db("insert test(title) values(%s)", ("مرحباً",))          self.write_query_into_file()      def write_query_into_file(self):         f = open("test.txt", "w+")         f.write(str(self.fetch_one("select title test")))         f.close()  try: start() except exception why: print why 

in example create test table 1 value title insert title arabic word when i'm trying query word , write file show me : ('\xd9\x85\xd8\xb1\xd8\xad\xd8\xa8\xd8\xa7\xd9\x8b',)

how can fix ?

use unicode type, represent text in python. not call str() on unicode string (str() converts bytes on python 2).

#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- __future__ import unicode_literals __future__ import print_function import io import sqlite3  # insert unicode sqlite db conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:') conn.execute("create table test(title text)") conn.execute("insert test(title) values(?)", ("مرحباً",))  # print titles file text in utf-8 encoding io.open('utf-8.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8') file:     title, in conn.execute("select title test"):         print(title, file=file)