Write and read Datetime to binary format in Python

Question

I want to store a list of datetimes in a binary file in Python.

EDIT: by \"binary\" I mean the best digital representation for each datatype. The application for thi

Answer 1

By far the most simple solution is to use Temporenc: http://temporenc.readthedocs.org/

It takes care of all the encoding/decoding and allows you to write a Python datetime object to a file:

now = datetime.datetime.now()
temporenc.pack(fp, now)

To read it back, this suffices:

dt = temporenc.unpack(fp)
print(dt)