- Fixed the ``.python_type`` attribute of :class:`.postgresql.INTERVAL`

to return ``datetime.timedelta`` in the same way as that of
:obj:`.types.Interval.python_type`, rather than raising
``NotImplementedError``.
fixes #3571

(cherry picked from commit 29d6f6e19b014bb5ce79032bd8803e32b4da0e5e)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/base.py
index ef870a177..8de5bede7 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/base.py
@@ -603,6 +603,8 @@ a new version.
 """
 from collections import defaultdict
 import re
+import datetime as dt
+
 
 from ... import sql, schema, exc, util
 from ...engine import default, reflection
@@ -709,6 +711,10 @@ class INTERVAL(sqltypes.TypeEngine):
     def _type_affinity(self):
         return sqltypes.Interval
 
+    @property
+    def python_type(self):
+        return dt.timedelta
+
 PGInterval = INTERVAL