Removing Unicode from Python?

[Brian Quinlan]

> All MS products use unicode strings. All the time.  Its integral to
> the OS and all its libraries.

This statement is obviously false.
 
> VB and other MS offspring allow you to ignore that fact,  but they
> don't make it go away.
> 
> Python is just doing what it should do: handle unicode strings as
unicode
> strings.

But the SQL Server "text" type is not a Unicode type.

Cheers,
Brian