Datetime JSON

Serialize and deserialize datetime objects to and from JSON.

This package provides:

• 4 functions that wrap the corresponding functions of the json module:

  • load/loads - Deserialize a JSON string containing datetime objects
  • dump/dumps - Serialize python object containting datetime objects to JSON

• two classes derived respectively from json.JSONEncoder and json.JSONDecoder:

  • DateTimeEncoder - Serialize a datetime object to JSON
  • DateTimeDecoder - Deserialize a JSON string to a datetime object

Installation

pip install datetimejson

Usage

Just replace json import by datetimejson in your code:

>>> from datetimejson import dumps, loads
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> now = datetime.now()
>>> print(now)
2023-02-13 11:27:56.687439
>>> json_string = dumps(now)
>>> print(json_string)
{"__type__": "datetime", "year": 2023, "month": 2, "day": 13, "hour": 11, "minute": 27, "second": 56, "microsecond": 687439}
>>> print(loads(json_string))
2023-02-13 11:27:56.687439
>>> 

Original code by @ApptuitAI: https://gist.github.com/abhinav-upadhyay/5300137