diff --git a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/pysqlite_datetime.py b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/pysqlite_datetime.py
index 5d843f906b3062d..f8481b7b956b8f1 100644
--- a/Doc/includes/sqlite3/pysqlite_datetime.py
+++ b/Doc/includes/sqlite3/pysqlite_datetime.py
@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@
 row = cur.fetchone()
 print("current_date", row[0], type(row[0]))
 print("current_timestamp", row[1], type(row[1]))
+print(cur.description)
 
 con.close()
diff --git a/Lib/sqlite3/test/regression.py b/Lib/sqlite3/test/regression.py
index c714116ac49208b..cbd46d4978afb96 100644
--- a/Lib/sqlite3/test/regression.py
+++ b/Lib/sqlite3/test/regression.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def CheckStatementReset(self):
     def CheckColumnNameWithSpaces(self):
         cur = self.con.cursor()
         cur.execute('select 1 as "foo bar [datetime]"')
-        self.assertEqual(cur.description[0][0], "foo bar")
+        self.assertEqual(cur.description[0][0], "foo bar [datetime]")
 
         cur.execute('select 1 as "foo baz"')
         self.assertEqual(cur.description[0][0], "foo baz")
diff --git a/Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py b/Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py
index 19ecd07500fec50..0fdc67a6cdce39a 100644
--- a/Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py
+++ b/Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ def CheckColName(self):
 
         # Check if the stripping of colnames works. Everything after the first
         # whitespace should be stripped.
-        self.assertEqual(self.cur.description[0][0], "x")
+        self.assertEqual(self.cur.description[0][0], "x [bar]")
 
     def CheckCaseInConverterName(self):
         self.cur.execute("select 'other' as \"x [b1b1]\"")
diff --git a/Modules/_sqlite/cursor.c b/Modules/_sqlite/cursor.c
index ab276db782607c9..80b01ebbecc0bc1 100644
--- a/Modules/_sqlite/cursor.c
+++ b/Modules/_sqlite/cursor.c
@@ -202,10 +202,7 @@ _pysqlite_build_column_name(const char* colname)
     }
 
     for (pos = colname;; pos++) {
-        if (*pos == 0 || *pos == '[') {
-            if ((*pos == '[') && (pos > colname) && (*(pos-1) == ' ')) {
-                pos--;
-            }
+        if (*pos == '\0') {
             return PyUnicode_FromStringAndSize(colname, pos - colname);
         }
     }