How to overcome “datetime.datetime not JSON serializable”?

Question

I have a basic dict as follows:

sample = {}
sample[\'title\'] = \"String\"
sample[\'somedate\'] = somedatetimehere
         


        

Answer 1

I have just encountered this problem and my solution is to subclass json.JSONEncoder:

from datetime import datetime
import json

class DateTimeEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
    def default(self, o):
        if isinstance(o, datetime):
            return o.isoformat()

        return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, o)

In your call do something like: json.dumps(yourobj, cls=DateTimeEncoder) The .isoformat() I got from one of the answers above.