How to dump a Python dictionary to JSON when keys are non-trivial objects?

Question

import datetime, json
x = {\'alpha\': {datetime.date.today(): \'abcde\'}}
print json.dumps(x)

The above code fails with a TypeError since

Answer 1

http://jsonpickle.github.io/ might be what you want. When facing a similar issue, I ended up doing:

to_save = jsonpickle.encode(THE_THING, unpicklable=False, max_depth=4, make_refs=False)