Python TypeError: datetime.datetime not JSON serializable while using Mongo

Writing by shivdev on Monday, 3 of November , 2014 at 6:18 pm

This post from stackoverflow.com explains it.

Basically, you will need to use the default=json_util.default argument as defined in the PyMongo Docs

So, while converting a date object in a dictionary to JSON

from bson import json_util
import json
json_str = json.dumps(anObject, default=json_util.default)
print json_str

And while reading back the JSON string into a dictionary

from bson import json_util
import json
json.loads(json_str, object_hook=json_util.object_hook)

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