Python: how to remove timezone from dictionary values?

Question

I've a dictionary defined as follows. Its values are both str and datetime type. How to loop through it and remove timezones?

{'Account': 'xxx', 'Group': 'yyy', 'CreationDate': pywintypes.datetime(2020, 12, 2, 15, 58, 28, 790000, tzinfo=TimeZoneInfo('GMT Standard Time', True)), 'EditDate': pywintypes.datetime(2020, 12, 16, 10, 46, 7, 519000, tzinfo=TimeZoneInfo('GMT Standard Time', True))}

I tried this way but I get error 'dict_values' object is not subscriptable on tmp = contacts_dict.values()[j] :

contacts_dict_len = len(contacts_dict)

for j in range(0,contacts_dict_len):
    tmp = contacts_dict.values()[j]
    if isinstance(tmp, datetime.datetime):
        contacts_dict.values()[j] = tmp.replace(tzinfo=None)

PS: Removing timezones is needed in order to avoid following exception:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'total_seconds'
Exception ignored in: 'pandas._libs.tslibs.conversion._localize_tso'

Answer 1

Python dictionaries are not subscriptable. Remove the timezones by directly addressing the key values that you wish to change instead of looping through them.