Can't get sqlite3.Row working: keyword lookup doesn't work

[Peter Otten]

lgabiot wrote:

> using Python 2.7.6
> 
> I try to access a sqlite database using keyword lookup instead of
> position (much more easy to maintain code), but it always fail, with the
> error:
> Index must be int or string
> 
> I have created the database, populated it, and here is the code that
> tries to retrieve the information:
> 
> with sqlite3.connect(mydbPath) as db: # open the database
>      db.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
>      cursor = db.cursor()
>      cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM files")
> 
>      for row in cursor.fetchall():
>          print(row.keys())
>          print(row["filename"])
> 
> 
> result is:
> 
> ['filename', 'filepath', 'filetag', 'PROJECT', 'SCENE', 'TAKE', 'TAPE',
[...]
> 'is_cantar', 'is_sound_devices', 'exist']
> 
> error =>  Index must be int or string

Please remember to cut and past the traceback next time.

> What is wrong?

My crystal ball says that you have a

from __future__ import unicode_literals

statement at the beginning of the module. If I'm right try

row[b"filename"]