I have a form with dropdowns full of times, represented with datetime.time objects.
What's the best way to serialize the object? eg:
<option value="${time.serialize()}">${time.isoformat()}</option>
And then deserialize it on the other end? eg:
time = datetime.time.deserialize(request.params['time'])
If you repr a datetime.time object, Python gives you isoformat. As reprs attempt to be serialized versions of their objects, that's a good indication it's the value you should use.
import datetime
timestring = datetime.datetime.now().time().isoformat()
timeobj = datetime.datetime.strptime(timestring, "%H:%M:%S.%f").time()
In Python 3.6 and newer you can use the datetime.time.isoformat function to serialize and in Python 3.7 and newer you can use the datetime.time.fromisoformat function to deserialize. So it would look like this
import datetime
time_string = datetime.datetime.now().time().isoformat()
time_obj = datetime.time.fromisoformat(time_string)
and to do this with a datetime instead of a time, it would look like
import datetime
datetime_string = datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()
datetime_obj = datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(datetime_string)
