import psycopg conn = psycopg.connect("dbname=test") curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT ARRAY[1,2,3] AS foo") print curs.fetchone()[0] curs.execute("SELECT ARRAY['1','2','3'] AS foo") print curs.fetchone()[0] curs.execute("""SELECT ARRAY[',','"','\\\\'] AS foo""") d = curs.fetchone()[0] print d, '->', d[0], d[1], d[2] curs.execute("SELECT ARRAY[ARRAY[1,2],ARRAY[3,4]] AS foo") print curs.fetchone()[0] curs.execute("SELECT ARRAY['20:00:01'::time] AS foo") print curs.description print curs.fetchone()[0]