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class DATETIME(_DateTimeMixin, sqltypes.DateTime):

Known subclasses: sqlalchemy.dialects.sqlite.pysqlite._SQLite_pysqliteTimeStamp

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Represent a Python datetime object in SQLite using a string.

The default string storage format is:

"%(year)04d-%(month)02d-%(day)02d %(hour)02d:%(minute)02d:%(second)02d.%(microsecond)06d"

e.g.:

2021-03-15 12:05:57.105542

The storage format can be customized to some degree using the storage_format and regexp parameters, such as:

import re
from sqlalchemy.dialects.sqlite import DATETIME

dt = DATETIME(storage_format="%(year)04d/%(month)02d/%(day)02d "
                             "%(hour)02d:%(minute)02d:%(second)02d",
              regexp=r"(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+) (\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)"
)
Parameters
storage​_formatformat string which will be applied to the dict with keys year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and microsecond.
regexpregular expression which will be applied to incoming result rows. If the regexp contains named groups, the resulting match dict is applied to the Python datetime() constructor as keyword arguments. Otherwise, if positional groups are used, the datetime() constructor is called with positional arguments via *map(int, match_obj.groups(0)).
Method __init__ Construct a new .DateTime.
Method bind​_processor Return a conversion function for processing bind values.
Method result​_processor Return a conversion function for processing result row values.
Instance Variable ​_storage​_format Undocumented

Inherited from _DateTimeMixin:

Method adapt Undocumented
Method literal​_processor Undocumented
Instance Variable ​_reg Undocumented
Property format​_is​_text​_affinity return True if the storage format will automatically imply a TEXT affinity.

Inherited from DateTime:

Method get​_dbapi​_type Return the corresponding type object from the underlying DB-API, if any.
Method ​_resolve​_for​_literal adjust this type given a literal Python value that will be stored in a bound parameter.
Class Variable __visit​_name__ Undocumented
Instance Variable timezone Undocumented
Property ​_expression​_adaptations Undocumented
Property python​_type Return the Python type object expected to be returned by instances of this type, if known.

Inherited from _LookupExpressionAdapter (via DateTime):

Class ​Comparator Undocumented

Inherited from TypeEngine (via DateTime):

Class ​Comparator Base class for custom comparison operations defined at the type level. See .TypeEngine.comparator_factory.
Method adapt Produce an "adapted" form of this type, given an "impl" class to work with.
Method as​_generic Return an instance of the generic type corresponding to this type using heuristic rule. The method may be overridden if this heuristic rule is not sufficient.
Method bind​_expression Given a bind value (i.e. a .BindParameter instance), return a SQL expression in its place.
Method coerce​_compared​_value Suggest a type for a 'coerced' Python value in an expression.
Method column​_expression Given a SELECT column expression, return a wrapping SQL expression.
Method compare​_against​_backend Compare this type against the given backend type.
Method compare​_values Compare two values for equality.
Method compile Produce a string-compiled form of this .TypeEngine.
Method dialect​_impl Return a dialect-specific implementation for this .TypeEngine.
Method evaluates​_none Return a copy of this type which has the .should_evaluate_none flag set to True.
Method literal​_processor Return a conversion function for processing literal values that are to be rendered directly without using binds.
Method with​_variant Produce a new type object that will utilize the given type when applied to the dialect of the given name.
Class Variable hashable Flag, if False, means values from this type aren't hashable.
Class Variable should​_evaluate​_none If True, the Python constant None is considered to be handled explicitly by this type.
Class Variable sort​_key​_function A sorting function that can be passed as the key to sorted.
Static Method ​_to​_instance Undocumented
Method __repr__ Undocumented
Method __str__ Undocumented
Method ​_cached​_bind​_processor Return a dialect-specific bind processor for this type.
Method ​_cached​_custom​_processor Undocumented
Method ​_cached​_literal​_processor Return a dialect-specific literal processor for this type.
Method ​_cached​_result​_processor Return a dialect-specific result processor for this type.
Method ​_compare​_type​_affinity Undocumented
Method ​_default​_dialect Undocumented
Method ​_dialect​_info Return a dialect-specific registry which caches a dialect-specific implementation, bind processing function, and one or more result processing functions.
Method ​_gen​_dialect​_impl Undocumented
Method ​_unwrapped​_dialect​_impl Return the 'unwrapped' dialect impl for this type.
Method copy Undocumented
Method copy​_value Undocumented
Class Variable ​_is​_array Undocumented
Class Variable ​_is​_table​_value Undocumented
Class Variable ​_is​_tuple​_type Undocumented
Class Variable ​_is​_type​_decorator Undocumented
Class Variable ​_isnull Undocumented
Class Variable ​_sqla​_type Undocumented
Property ​_generic​_type​_affinity Undocumented
Property ​_has​_bind​_expression memoized boolean, check if bind_expression is implemented.
Property ​_has​_column​_expression memoized boolean, check if column_expression is implemented.
Property ​_static​_cache​_key Undocumented
Property ​_type​_affinity Return a rudimental 'affinity' value expressing the general class of type.

Inherited from Traversible (via DateTime, TypeEngine):

Method get​_children Return immediate child .visitors.Traversible elements of this .visitors.Traversible.
Method __class​_getitem__ Undocumented
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
Construct a new .DateTime.
Parameters
*argsUndocumented
**kwargsUndocumented
timezoneboolean. Indicates that the datetime type should enable timezone support, if available on the base date/time-holding type only. It is recommended to make use of the _types.TIMESTAMP datatype directly when using this flag, as some databases include separate generic date/time-holding types distinct from the timezone-capable TIMESTAMP datatype, such as Oracle.
def bind_processor(self, dialect):

Return a conversion function for processing bind values.

Returns a callable which will receive a bind parameter value as the sole positional argument and will return a value to send to the DB-API.

If processing is not necessary, the method should return None.

Note

This method is only called relative to a dialect specific type object, which is often private to a dialect in use and is not the same type object as the public facing one, which means it's not feasible to subclass a .types.TypeEngine class in order to provide an alternate _types.TypeEngine.bind_processor method, unless subclassing the _types.UserDefinedType class explicitly.

To provide alternate behavior for _types.TypeEngine.bind_processor, implement a _types.TypeDecorator class and provide an implementation of _types.TypeDecorator.process_bind_param.

Parameters
dialectDialect instance in use.
def result_processor(self, dialect, coltype):

Return a conversion function for processing result row values.

Returns a callable which will receive a result row column value as the sole positional argument and will return a value to return to the user.

If processing is not necessary, the method should return None.

Note

This method is only called relative to a dialect specific type object, which is often private to a dialect in use and is not the same type object as the public facing one, which means it's not feasible to subclass a .types.TypeEngine class in order to provide an alternate _types.TypeEngine.result_processor method, unless subclassing the _types.UserDefinedType class explicitly.

To provide alternate behavior for _types.TypeEngine.result_processor, implement a _types.TypeDecorator class and provide an implementation of _types.TypeDecorator.process_result_value.

Parameters
dialectDialect instance in use.
coltypeDBAPI coltype argument received in cursor.description.
_storage_format: str =