from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite3 import datetime con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:", detect_types=sqlite3.PARSE_DECLTYPES|sqlite3.PARSE_COLNAMES) cur = con.cursor() cur.execute("create table test(d date, ts timestamp)") today = datetime.date.today() now = datetime.datetime.now() cur.execute("insert into test(d, ts) values (?, ?)", (today, now)) cur.execute("select d, ts from test") row = cur.fetchone() print today, "=>", row[0], type(row[0]) print now, "=>", row[1], type(row[1]) cur.execute('select current_date as "d [date]", current_timestamp as "ts [timestamp]"') row = cur.fetchone() print "current_date", row[0], type(row[0]) print "current_timestamp", row[1], type(row[1])