Serializing output to JSON - ValueError: Circular reference detected

I'm trying to output results of my mysql query to JSON. I have problem with serializing datetime.datetime field, so I wrote small function to do that:

def date_handler(obj):
    if hasattr(obj, 'isoformat'):
        return obj.isoformat()
    else:
        return obj

and then in main code I'm just running:

products_json = []
for code in best_matching_codes:
    cur = db.cursor()
    query = "SELECT * FROM %s WHERE code LIKE '%s'" % (PRODUCTS_TABLE_NAME, product_code)
    cur.execute(query)
    columns = [desc[0] for desc in cur.description]
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    for row in rows:
        products_json.append(dict((k,v) for k,v in zip(columns,row)))   

return json.dumps(products_json, default = date_handler)

However, since I wrote date_handler function, I'm getting "ValueError: Circular reference detected"

127.0.0.1 - - [10/Jan/2013 00:42:18] "GET /1/product?code=9571%2F702 HTTP/1.1" 500 -
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1701, in __call__
return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1689, in wsgi_app
response = self.make_response(self.handle_exception(e))
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1687, in wsgi_app
response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1360, in full_dispatch_request
rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1358, in full_dispatch_request
rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1344, in dispatch_request
return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "/Users/pisarzp/Desktop/SusyChoosy/susyAPI/test1.py", line 69, in product_search
return json.dumps(products_json, default = date_handler)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.f