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

This Q repeats time and time again - a simple way to patch the json module such that serialization would support datetime.

import json
import datetime

json.JSONEncoder.default = lambda self,obj: (obj.isoformat() if isinstance(obj, datetime.datetime) else None)

Than use json serialization as you always do - this time with datetime being serialized as isoformat.

json.dumps({'created':datetime.datetime.now()})

Resulting in: '{"created": "2015-08-26T14:21:31.853855"}'

See more details and some words of caution at: StackOverflow: JSON datetime between Python and JavaScript