try
points=[[point.thedate.strftime('%Y%m%d'), point.value] for point in
pointlist]
or some other format that suits your needs.
On Oct 8, 10:29 am, Rick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to draw a graph with jqplot, where the x-axis is a date-
> timeline, but I get this message:
> TypeError: datetime.date(2011, 10, 2) is not JSON serializable
> Does anyone know an easy way to pass date variable to json?
>
> Thanks in advance for help. Here is some code from the files:
>
> ************
>
> From the controller file:
> points=[[point.thedate, point.value] for point in pointlist]
> return dict(points=points)
>
> ************
>
> from the view file:
> <script>
> <!--
> jQuery(document).ready(function() {
> $.jqplot('chart1', [{{=simplejson.dumps(points)}}], {
> title:'Default Date Axis',
> axes:{xaxis:{renderer:$.jqplot.DateAxisRenderer}},
> series:[{lineWidth:4, markerOptions:{style:'square'}}]
> });});
>
> -->
> </script>
> <div id="chart1" style="margin-top:20px;margin-left:20px; width:200px;
> height:200px;">
> </div>
