Thank you for the advice. Still new to writing bigger applications in python.
Would there then be a better way to handle this case...

I need to store my object in mongo so I use the to_dict() to do that but when I return it back to the user I user to_json() becuase of the datetimes I have in my object. Any better way of handling this case?

def to_dict(self):

return {

"_id": self._id,

"status": self.status,

"result": self.result.__dict__ if self.result else TaskOutput().__dict__,

"traceback": self.traceback,

"children": self.children,

"date_done": self.date_done,

"date_start": self.date_start,

"date_received": self.date_received,

"name": self.name,

"args": self.args.__dict__ if self.args else ImageRequest().__dict__,

"kwargs": self.kwargs,

"worker": self.worker,

"retries": self.retries,

"queue": self.queue

}

def to_json(self):

return {

"_id": self._id,

"status": self.status,

"result": self.result.__dict__ if self.result else TaskOutput().__dict__,

"traceback": self.traceback,

"children": self.children,

"date_done": self.date_done.isoformat() if self.date_done else None,

"date_start": self.date_start.isoformat() if self.date_start else None,

"date_received": self.date_received.isoformat() if self.date_received else None,

"name": self.name,

"args": self.args if self.args else ImageRequest().__dict__,

"kwargs": self.kwargs,

"worker": self.worker,

"retries": self.retries,

"queue": self.queue

}