diff -r c7d1768d4fac Doc/includes/sqlite3/converter_point.py
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/converter_point.py	Tue Nov 15 16:13:16 2011 +0100
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/converter_point.py	Sun Nov 27 11:19:46 2011 +0100
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
         return "(%f;%f)" % (self.x, self.y)
 
 def adapt_point(point):
-    return "%f;%f" % (point.x, point.y)
+    return ("%f;%f" % (point.x, point.y)).encode('ascii')
 
 def convert_point(s):
-    x, y = list(map(float, s.split(";")))
+    x, y = list(map(float, s.split(b";")))
     return Point(x, y)
 
 # Register the adapter
diff -r c7d1768d4fac Doc/includes/sqlite3/execute_1.py
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/execute_1.py	Tue Nov 15 16:13:16 2011 +0100
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/execute_1.py	Sun Nov 27 11:19:46 2011 +0100
@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@
 
 cur = con.cursor()
 
+# Create table
+cur.execute('''create table people
+(name_last, age)''')
+
+# Insert a row of data
+cur.execute("""insert into people
+          values ('Kohl', 85)""")
+
+
 who = "Yeltsin"
 age = 72
 
diff -r c7d1768d4fac Doc/includes/sqlite3/executemany_2.py
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/executemany_2.py	Tue Nov 15 16:13:16 2011 +0100
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/executemany_2.py	Sun Nov 27 11:19:46 2011 +0100
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import sqlite3
+import string
 
 def char_generator():
-    import string
-    for c in string.letters[:26]:
+    for c in string.ascii_letters_lowercase:
         yield (c,)
 
 con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
diff -r c7d1768d4fac Doc/includes/sqlite3/md5func.py
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/md5func.py	Tue Nov 15 16:13:16 2011 +0100
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/md5func.py	Sun Nov 27 11:19:46 2011 +0100
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
 con.create_function("md5", 1, md5sum)
 cur = con.cursor()
-cur.execute("select md5(?)", ("foo",))
+cur.execute("select md5(?)", (b"foo",))
 print(cur.fetchone()[0])
diff -r c7d1768d4fac Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py	Tue Nov 15 16:13:16 2011 +0100
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py	Sun Nov 27 11:19:46 2011 +0100
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
 con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
 cur = con.cursor()
 
-# Create the table
-con.execute("create table person(lastname, firstname)")
-
 AUSTRIA = "\xd6sterreich"
 
 # by default, rows are returned as Unicode
@@ -14,23 +11,14 @@
 assert row[0] == AUSTRIA
 
 # but we can make sqlite3 always return bytestrings ...
-con.text_factory = str
+con.text_factory = bytes
 cur.execute("select ?", (AUSTRIA,))
 row = cur.fetchone()
-assert type(row[0]) == str
+assert type(row[0]) == bytes
 # the bytestrings will be encoded in UTF-8, unless you stored garbage in the
 # database ...
 assert row[0] == AUSTRIA.encode("utf-8")
 
-# we can also implement a custom text_factory ...
-# here we implement one that will ignore Unicode characters that cannot be
-# decoded from UTF-8
-con.text_factory = lambda x: str(x, "utf-8", "ignore")
-cur.execute("select ?", ("this is latin1 and would normally create errors" +
-                         "\xe4\xf6\xfc".encode("latin1"),))
-row = cur.fetchone()
-assert type(row[0]) == str
-
 # sqlite3 offers a built-in optimized text_factory that will return bytestring
 # objects, if the data is in ASCII only, and otherwise return unicode objects
 con.text_factory = sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode
diff -r c7d1768d4fac Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst	Tue Nov 15 16:13:16 2011 +0100
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst	Sun Nov 27 11:19:46 2011 +0100
@@ -293,7 +293,6 @@
 
    .. literalinclude:: ../includes/sqlite3/md5func.py
 
-
 .. method:: Connection.create_aggregate(name, num_params, aggregate_class)
 
    Creates a user-defined aggregate function.
@@ -500,6 +499,7 @@
    more than one statement with it, it will raise a Warning. Use
    :meth:`executescript` if you want to execute multiple SQL statements with one
    call.
+   :meth:`[parameters]` needs to be a bytes type otherwise a TypeError will be raised.
 
 
 .. method:: Cursor.executemany(sql, seq_of_parameters)
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@
 ::
 
    def convert_point(s):
-       x, y = map(float, s.split(";"))
+       x, y = list(map(float, s.split(b";")))
        return Point(x, y)
 
 Now you need to make the :mod:`sqlite3` module know that what you select from