Hi Fernando,

the first parameter of the connect function is described in documentation as follows: 

> database is a path-like object giving the pathname (absolute or relative to the current working directory) of the database file to be opened. You can use ":memory:" to open a database connection to a database that resides in RAM instead of on disk.

So, while it can be a bytes object, it's still would be a bytes object representing a file-path. It's not bytes object representing a file content of the database.

Hope that helps.