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))

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