Converting postgresql timestamp to JavaScript timestamp in Python
You can't send a Python or Javascript "datetime" object over JSON. JSON only accepts more basic data types like Strings, Ints, and Floats.
The way I usually do it is send it as text, using Python's datetime.isoformat() then parse it on the Javascript side.
I have a postgre database with a timestamp column and I have a REST service in Python that executes a query in the database and returns data to a JavaScript front-end to plot a graph using flot.
Now the problem I have is that flot can automatically handle the date using JavaScript's TIMESTAMP, but I don't know how to convert the Postgre timestamps to JavaScript TIMESTAMP (YES a timestamp, not a date stop editing if you don't know the answer) in Python. I don't know if this is the best approach (maybe the conversion can be done in JavaScript?). Is there a way to do this?