How to read datetime back from sqlite as a datetime instead of string in Python?

Question

I\'m using the sqlite3 module in Python 2.6.4 to store a datetime in a SQLite database. Inserting it is very easy, because sqlite automatically converts the date to a string

Answer 1

Note: In Python3, I had to change the SQL to something like:

SELECT jobid, startedTime as "st [timestamp]" FROM job

(I had to explicitly name the column.)