Breaking ground for PEP 3137 implementation:

Get rid of buffer().  Use memoryview() in its place where possible.
In a few places, do things a bit different, because memoryview()
can't slice (yet).
diff --git a/Lib/sqlite3/dbapi2.py b/Lib/sqlite3/dbapi2.py
index 7eb28e8..52fb4ae 100644
--- a/Lib/sqlite3/dbapi2.py
+++ b/Lib/sqlite3/dbapi2.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 version_info = tuple([int(x) for x in version.split(".")])
 sqlite_version_info = tuple([int(x) for x in sqlite_version.split(".")])
 
-Binary = buffer
+Binary = memoryview
 
 def register_adapters_and_converters():
     def adapt_date(val):