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I'd like to use simplejson to serialize a Django model. Django's serializer doesn't support dictionaries... and simplejson doesn't support Django Querysets. This is quite a conundrum. In the model there's sponsors that have a Foreign Key to sponsor level, I'm trying to group all the sponsors that belong to a certain sponsor level together. Here's the code that generates the list: from django.shortcuts import get_list_or_404 from special_event.models import Sponsor, SponsorLevel sponsor_dict = {} roadie_sponsors = get_list_or_404(Sponsor, level__category = SponsorLevel.ROADIE_CHOICE) for item in roadie_sponsors: try: sponsor_dict[item.level.name].append(item) except KeyError: sponsor_dict[item.level.name] = [item] Here's what sponsor_dict looks like once it's "made" { 'Fan': [<Sponsor: Fan Sponsor>], 'VIP': [<Sponsor: VIP Sponsor>], 'Groupie': [<Sponsor: Groupie Sponsor>], 'Silver': [<Sponsor: Silver Sponsor>], 'Bronze': [<Sponsor: Another Bronze Sponsor>, <Sponsor: Bronze Sponsor>] } I only added one sponsor in each level, except for bronze, just to show how it works. All I want to do is get it "all" into JSON so jQuery can interpret it easily. Can Django's other serializers (like XML or YAML) accomplish this? Can I "extend" the Django JSON Serializer to handle dictionaries or "extend" simplejson to handle Django QuerySet objects?

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