import psycopg conn = psycopg.connect("dbname=test") curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT ARRAY[1,2,3] AS foo") print curs.fetchone() curs.execute("SELECT ARRAY['1','2','3'] AS foo") print curs.fetchone() curs.execute("""SELECT ARRAY['','"',''] AS foo""") d = curs.fetchone() print d, '->', d[0][0], d[0][1], d[0][2]