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

If you are on both sides of the communication you can use repr() and eval() functions along with json.

import datetime, json

dt = datetime.datetime.now()
print("This is now: {}".format(dt))

dt1 = json.dumps(repr(dt))
print("This is serialised: {}".format(dt1))

dt2 = json.loads(dt1)
print("This is loaded back from json: {}".format(dt2))

dt3 = eval(dt2)
print("This is the same object as we started: {}".format(dt3))

print("Check if they are equal: {}".format(dt == dt3))

You shouldn't import datetime as

from datetime import datetime

since eval will complain. Or you can pass datetime as a parameter to eval. In any case this should work.