--- a/Modules/_sqlite/statement.c	Mon May 26 13:22:05 2008 +0000
+++ b/Modules/_sqlite/statement.c	Mon May 26 13:28:38 2008 +0000
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
     }
 
     if (paramtype == TYPE_STRING && !allow_8bit_chars) {
-        string = PyString_AS_STRING(parameter);
+        string = PyBytes_AS_STRING(parameter);
         for (c = string; *c != 0; c++) {
             if (*c & 0x80) {
                 PyErr_SetString(pysqlite_ProgrammingError, "You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.");