1 import sqlite3 2 import datetime 3 4 con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:", detect_types=sqlite3.PARSE_DECLTYPES|sqlite3.PARSE_COLNAMES) 5 cur = con.cursor() 6 cur.execute("create table test(d date, ts timestamp)") 7 8 today = datetime.date.today() 9 now = datetime.datetime.now() 10 11 cur.execute("insert into test(d, ts) values (?, ?)", (today, now)) 12 cur.execute("select d, ts from test") 13 row = cur.fetchone() 14 print today, "=>", row[0], type(row[0]) 15 print now, "=>", row[1], type(row[1]) 16 17 cur.execute('select current_date as "d [date]", current_timestamp as "ts [timestamp]"') 18 row = cur.fetchone() 19 print "current_date", row[0], type(row[0]) 20 print "current_timestamp", row[1], type(row[1]) 21