Python-2.7.5/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)