How to use the pyhive.presto.PrestoParamEscaper function in PyHive

# PEP 249 module globals
apilevel = '2.0'
threadsafety = 2  # Threads may share the module and connections.
paramstyle = 'pyformat'  # Python extended format codes, e.g. ...WHERE name=%(name)s

_logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


class PrestoParamEscaper(common.ParamEscaper):
    def escape_datetime(self, item, format):
        _type = "timestamp" if isinstance(item, datetime.datetime) else "date"
        formatted = super(PrestoParamEscaper, self).escape_datetime(item, format, 3)
        return "{} {}".format(_type, formatted)


_escaper = PrestoParamEscaper()


def connect(*args, **kwargs):
    """Constructor for creating a connection to the database. See class :py:class:`Connection` for
    arguments.

    :returns: a :py:class:`Connection` object.
    """
    return Connection(*args, **kwargs)


class Connection(object):
    """Presto does not have a notion of a persistent connection.

    Thus, these objects are small stateless factories for cursors, which do all the real work.
    """

def escape_datetime(self, item, format):
        _type = "timestamp" if isinstance(item, datetime.datetime) else "date"
        formatted = super(PrestoParamEscaper, self).escape_datetime(item, format, 3)
        return "{} {}".format(_type, formatted)