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

I got the same error message while writing the serialize decorator inside a Class with sqlalchemy. So instead of :

Class Puppy(Base):
    ...
    @property
    def serialize(self):
        return { 'id':self.id,
                 'date_birth':self.date_birth,
                  ...
                }

I simply borrowed jgbarah's idea of using isoformat() and appended the original value with isoformat(), so that it now looks like:

                  ...
                 'date_birth':self.date_birth.isoformat(),
                  ...