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

You should use .strftime() method on .datetime.now() method to making it as a serializable method.

Here's an example:

from datetime import datetime

time_dict = {'time': datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')}
sample_dict = {'a': 1, 'b': 2}
sample_dict.update(time_dict)
sample_dict

Output:

Out[0]: {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'time': '2017-10-31T15:16:30'}