Plan 9 from Bell Labs’s /usr/web/sources/contrib/jas/root/sys/src/cmd/cpython/Doc/includes/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)