Question

In the SQLite documentation, it says you can get the current date by running the query

SELECT date('now');

and indeed it works in the SQLite command line:

sqlite> SELECT date('now');
2012-03-03

However, when I try to use it in a Python program, the same query doesn’t work:

import sqlite3
conn=sqlite3.connect('results.db')
c=conn.cursor()
c.execute('SELECT date(now);')

says no such column: now.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You’re missing quotes around now.

Try c.execute("SELECT date('now');")