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How to make datetime.datetime json serializable - boto3 ec2 describe_instances
# 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))
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Thanks man!

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