APSW Column affinity override not working?

I have a table with a column type of NUMERIC (I'm building a shim layer 
to convert python types to some of the SQL types).

When I insert a string value of '123.3231' into this column, it goes in 
as a REAL rather than an INTEGER.

I read in the docs that a declared column type of NUMERIC should have a 
column affinity of REAL, and that I can override the column affinity by 
inserting a literal in single or double quotes.  However when I insert a 
literal in single quotes it is getting stored (and subsequently 
retrieved) as a REAL, not a string.

If I read the docs right, this is a bug.  Please kill the bug or tell me 
how to make that override work! :)

I can make the column type NUMERIC_TEXT and it works correctly but I 
don't want to use _TEXT in the column type (and if I'm reading the docs 
right, shouldn't have to.)

APSW version 3.3.13r1 on Windows under Python 2.5.

Please advise.

Thanks!
Scott