#!/usr/bin/env python # encoding: utf-8 # # Copyright (c) 2009 Doug Hellmann All rights reserved. # """ """ #end_pymotw_header import json import json_myobj obj = json_myobj.MyObj('instance value goes here') print 'First attempt' try: print json.dumps(obj) except TypeError, err: print 'ERROR:', err def convert_to_builtin_type(obj): print 'default(', repr(obj), ')' # Convert objects to a dictionary of their representation d = { '__class__':obj.__class__.__name__, '__module__':obj.__module__, } d.update(obj.__dict__) return d print print 'With default' print json.dumps(obj, default=convert_to_builtin_type)