How to make datetime.datetime json serializable - boto3 ec2 describe_instances

describe_instances.py

# Adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35869985/datetime-datetime-is-not-json-serializable

import datetime
import json

import boto3

def datetime_handler(x):
    if isinstance(x, datetime.datetime):
        return x.isoformat()
    raise TypeError("Unknown type")


client = boto3.client('ec2')
data = client.describe_instances()
print(json.dumps(data, default=datetime_handler))

Life savior!

Thanks!

thanks!

thanks!

Life savior!

Second that!

thanks!

3000 thanks!

genius. thank you

Amazing! Thank you!!

so many many thanks

Awesome, thanks!

THANK YOU

This is amazing!! It saved me a TON of time! Thank you so much!

Thanks to everyone who dropped a note here expressing that my gist helped them. I think it's amusing that my most appreciated contribution to open source is a small snippet that I recorded primarily for future self. I'm glad people found it useful.

Thank you! you have no idea how much time you saved me!

Thanks

Thank you :)

Thanks man!