Python SQLite how to get SQL string statement being executed

Let’s say we have a SQL statement that just needs to be completed with the parameters before getting executed against the DB. For instance:

sql = '''
      SELECT  id, price, date_out
      FROM sold_items
      WHERE date_out BETWEEN ? AND ?
      '''

database_cursor.execute(sql, (start_date, end_date))

How do I get the string that is parsed and executed?, something like this:

SELECT  id, price, date_out
FROM sold_items
WHERE date_out BETWEEN 2010-12-05 AND 2011-12-01

In this simple case it’s not very important, but I have other SQL Statements much more complicated, and for debugging purposes I would like to execute them myself in my sqlite manager and check the results.

Thanks in advance

Answer

UPDATE. I learned from this web page that since Python 3.3 you can trigger printing of executed SQL with

connection.set_trace_callback(print)

Should you want to revert to silent processing, use

connection.set_trace_callback(None)

You can use another function instead of print.