convert date json entries to datetime objet while loading with json.loads (usefull to import data from Django datadump)

gistfile1.py

import json
import datetime
import re

DATE_FORMAT = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
def datetime_parser(entry):
    for k, v in entry.items():
        if isinstance(v, basestring) and re.search("^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}$", v):
            try:
                entry[k] = datetime.datetime.strptime(v, DATE_FORMAT)
            except:
                pass
    return entry

data = json.loads(open("kdl.json").read(),  object_hook=datetime_parser)