Disable unconditional printfs in syborg_pointer.cpp to cur down the noise in debug logs
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)