How do I convert from a .NET DateTime to an IronPython datetime?

Question

I'm calling an IronPython script and passing it a .NET object that contains a DateTime structure.

I'm trying to use IronPython's JSON support to serialize the object as JSON.

Everything works great until I encounter the .NET DateTime.

How do I convert from the .NET DateTime to the IronPython datetime?

Answer 1

Anticipating that people might like to convert between these we actually make it really easy:

import datetime
from System import DateTime
datetime.datetime(DateTime.Now)

Answer 2

As we know, the datetime type has the following structure: datetime(year, month, day[, hour[, minute[, second[, microsecond[, tzinfo]]]]]). So all you need is to find a way how to fulfill the required options.

strptime is not yet implemented (otherwise you'd have the ability to simply call datetime.datetime.strptime(DateTime.Now.ToString(format), format).strftime(format)) in IronPython. Instead, you can use the following code (not very optimized one) for now:

from System import DateTime

import datetime

d = DateTime.Now

print datetime.date(d.Year, d.Month, d.Day)
print datetime.datetime(d.Year, d.Month, d.Day, d.Hour, d.Minute, d.Second)