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This seems to be just like issue6010, which is closed as "not as bug" which is simple irresponsible on the part of Python.
The problem is that I can store data into sqlite3 which cannot be retrieved. The data I encountered was a string with a \xa0 in it that was read from urllib2. I deposited that data into an sqlite3 database with no trouble at all. Later, however, sqlite3 would throw an exception when I tried to retrieve the data.
Martin v. Löwis says this is user error because sqlite3 assumes UTF-8. It makes no sense that storeable data cannot be retrieved and that the failure of sqlite3 is a user-error. If sqlite3 assumes UTF-8, then the error should have been caught when I did the store because I was not storing UTF-8 data. Accepting bad input and blaming the user later down the line is bad bug handling, especially because the two events might be separated by a tremendous gap of time and code which makes debugging quite hard. I was only able to find the errant character by popping the streamed webpage into emacs as both python and firefox showed me a normal looking string with nothing wrong with it.