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

you can do x = {'alpha': {datetime.date.today().strftime('%d-%m-%Y'): 'abcde'}}