ref: 57d690c482c7e5f57608befe7cb04797b1bff153
dir: /sys/src/cmd/python/Doc/lib/sqlite3/parse_colnames.py/
import sqlite3 import datetime con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:", detect_types=sqlite3.PARSE_COLNAMES) cur = con.cursor() cur.execute('select ? as "x [timestamp]"', (datetime.datetime.now(),)) dt = cur.fetchone()[0] print dt, type(dt)