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 objectsdump/dumps
- Serialize python object containting datetime objects to JSON
-
two classes derived respectively from
json.JSONEncoder
andjson.JSONDecoder
:DateTimeEncoder
- Serialize a datetime object to JSONDateTimeDecoder
- 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