Recursively convert python object graph to dictionary

Question

I\'m trying to convert the data from a simple object graph into a dictionary. I don\'t need type information or methods and I don\'t need to be able to convert it back to an

Answer 1

A slow but easy way to do this is to use jsonpickle to convert the object to a JSON string and then json.loads to convert it back to a python dictionary:

dict = json.loads(jsonpickle.encode( obj, unpicklable=False ))