Aqui está minha solução completa para converter datetime em JSON e vice-versa.
import calendar, datetime, json
def outputJSON(obj):
"""Default JSON serializer."""
if isinstance(obj, datetime.datetime):
if obj.utcoffset() is not None:
obj = obj - obj.utcoffset()
return obj.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f')
return str(obj)
def inputJSON(obj):
newDic = {}
for key in obj:
try:
if float(key) == int(float(key)):
newKey = int(key)
else:
newKey = float(key)
newDic[newKey] = obj[key]
continue
except ValueError:
pass
try:
newDic[str(key)] = datetime.datetime.strptime(obj[key], '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f')
continue
except TypeError:
pass
newDic[str(key)] = obj[key]
return newDic
x = {'Date': datetime.datetime.utcnow(), 34: 89.9, 12.3: 90, 45: 67, 'Extra': 6}
print x
with open('my_dict.json', 'w') as fp:
json.dump(x, fp, default=outputJSON)
with open('my_dict.json') as f:
my_dict = json.load(f, object_hook=inputJSON)
print my_dict
Resultado
{'Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 11, 8, 2, 30, 56, 479727), 34: 89.9, 45: 67, 12.3: 90, 'Extra': 6}
{'Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 11, 8, 2, 30, 56, 479727), 34: 89.9, 45: 67, 12.3: 90, 'Extra': 6}
Arquivo JSON
{"Date": "2013-11-08 02:30:56.479727", "34": 89.9, "45": 67, "12.3": 90, "Extra": 6}
Isso me permitiu importar e exportar objetos de strings, ints, floats e datetime. Não deve ser difícil estender para outros tipos.