I've opened issue here <https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/issues/3714/sqlalchemy-core-returns-string-instead-of>, please read it, it's very brief.
Now Mike Bayer says that it's not a sqlalchemy bug, and says that I can use cast to hint to mysql to return datetime.date, but this won't work with sqlite which we're trying to use for tests. So it's doesn't solve my problem as I really want to use sqlite for tests. So I got a few questions Why ``` literal(d, Date)``` isn't working with mysql? I've explicitly stated that this column is of type Date. But mysql still returns strings. What is the use of this type parameter in ```literal``` function? Could someone point me to a sqlite bug report which says that cast isn't working correctly with casting string to date? Maybe I can fix this... Are there any other workarounds that are actually portable? I mean besides changing my own functions logic to deal with corner cases like if result is string, than convert it to date etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
