diff --git a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/converter_point.py b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/converter_point.py
index a8861bc..5df828e 100644
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/converter_point.py
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/converter_point.py
@@ -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 --git a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/execute_1.py b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/execute_1.py
index 3d08840..f864a89 100644
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/execute_1.py
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/execute_1.py
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 import sqlite3
 
-con = sqlite3.connect("mydb")
-
+con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
 cur = con.cursor()
+cur.execute("create table people (name_last, age)")
 
 who = "Yeltsin"
 age = 72
 
-cur.execute("select name_last, age from people where name_last=? and age=?", (who, age))
+# This is the qmark style:
+cur.execute("insert into people values (?, ?)", (who, age))
+
+# And this is the named style:
+cur.execute("select * from people where name_last=:who and age=:age", {"who": who, "age": age})
+
 print(cur.fetchone())
diff --git a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/execute_2.py b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/execute_2.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 84734f9..0000000
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/execute_2.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-import sqlite3
-
-con = sqlite3.connect("mydb")
-
-cur = con.cursor()
-
-who = "Yeltsin"
-age = 72
-
-cur.execute("select name_last, age from people where name_last=:who and age=:age",
-    {"who": who, "age": age})
-print(cur.fetchone())
diff --git a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/executemany_2.py b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/executemany_2.py
index 518cd94..527358e 100644
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/executemany_2.py
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/executemany_2.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import sqlite3
+import string
 
 def char_generator():
-    import string
-    for c in string.letters[:26]:
+    for c in string.ascii_lowercase:
         yield (c,)
 
 con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
diff --git a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/md5func.py b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/md5func.py
index b7bc05b..0056b2d 100644
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/md5func.py
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/md5func.py
@@ -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 --git a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/rowclass.py b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/rowclass.py
index 3fa0b87..92b5ad6 100644
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/rowclass.py
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/rowclass.py
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 import sqlite3
 
-con = sqlite3.connect("mydb")
+con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
 con.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
 
 cur = con.cursor()
-cur.execute("select name_last, age from people")
+cur.execute("select 'John' as name, 42 as age")
 for row in cur:
-    assert row[0] == row["name_last"]
-    assert row["name_last"] == row["nAmE_lAsT"]
+    assert row[0] == row["name"]
+    assert row["name"] == row["nAmE"]
     assert row[1] == row["age"]
     assert row[1] == row["AgE"]
diff --git a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py
index 22c2970..5f96cdb 100644
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/text_factory.py
@@ -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
@@ -14,30 +11,17 @@
 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]) is 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"),))
+# here we implement one that appends "foo" to all strings
+con.text_factory = lambda x: x.decode("utf-8") + "foo"
+cur.execute("select ?", ("bar",))
 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
-cur.execute("select ?", (AUSTRIA,))
-row = cur.fetchone()
-assert type(row[0]) == str
-
-cur.execute("select ?", ("Germany",))
-row = cur.fetchone()
-assert type(row[0]) == str
+assert row[0] == "barfoo"