Module json_utils

Parses the pymongo.json_util encoding of a datetime instance. The instance is encoded as a 64-bit unsigned integer for milliseconds since epoch, according to JSON strict mode. This method also assumes the strict mode packaging of a dict using $date as the key for this integer.

Example: { "$date" : 1283505509571}

Parameters:

• date_string (dict with the date integer stored at $date) - JSON encoded datetime instance

Returns: datetime.datetime instance

python object representing the date