SQLAlchemy default DateTime

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This is my declarative model:

import datetime
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, DateTime
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

Base = declarative_base()

class Test(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'test'

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    created_date = DateTime(default=datetime.datetime.utcnow)

However, when I try to import this module, I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "orm/models2.py", line 37, in <module>
    class Test(Base):
  File "orm/models2.py", line 41, in Test
    created_date = sqlalchemy.DateTime(default=datetime.datetime.utcnow)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'default'

If I use an Integer type, I can set a default value. What’s going on?

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