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

Here is a simple solution to over come "datetime not JSON serializable" problem.

enco = lambda obj: (
    obj.isoformat()
    if isinstance(obj, datetime.datetime)
    or isinstance(obj, datetime.date)
    else None
)

json.dumps({'date': datetime.datetime.now()}, default=enco)

Output:-> {"date": "2015-12-16T04:48:20.024609"}