java.lang.Double not automatically converted

[phwhite-coh]

Running 1.2.3
I'm selecting from a Spark table with a column of type double. When I check the 'description' property of the cursor, I see this type for the column:
DBAPITypeObject('FLOAT', 'REAL', 'DOUBLE')

When I get the data from the cursor the class is "java.lang.Double".

Shouldn't this automatically convert to a Python float? String types are converting automatically.