pyspider爬虫框架无法返回datetime对象的问题

这几天我一直在研究利用pyspider框架爬取新闻网站。
但是由于诸多原因，这一工作进展缓慢。
接下来我阐述的问题困惑了我很长时间。
先给出问题代码：

raw_time="YYYY年mm月dd日 HH:MM"
FORMAT='%Y年%m月%d日 %H:%M'
raw_time=datetime.datetime.strptime(raw_time,FORMAT)

...
return {
            "content":"<p>"+content+"</p",
            "title":title,
            "url": response.url,
            "time":raw_time,//返回datetime对象
            "source":source,
            "title": title
    
        }
    

但是在运行时候，会遇到如下错误信息：

[E 170517 15:01:59 result_worker:63] Object of type 'datetime' is not JSON serializable
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyspider/result/result_worker.py", line 54, in run
        self.on_result(task, result)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyspider/result/result_worker.py", line 38, in on_result
        result=result
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyspider/database/sqlite/resultdb.py", line 58, in save
        return self._replace(tablename, **self._stringify(obj))
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyspider/database/sqlite/resultdb.py", line 44, in _stringify
        data['result'] = json.dumps(data['result'])
      File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
        return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
      File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 199, in encode
        chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
      File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 257, in iterencode
        return _iterencode(o, 0)
      File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 180, in default
        o.__class__.__name__)
    TypeError: Object of type 'datetime' is not JSON serializable

实际上，类似代码在我自己环境中是可行的，显然问题不在于代码本身。
可以看到第一行的错误信息时在：

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyspider/result/result_worker.py", line 54, in run
        self.on_result(task, result)

这个result_worker.py文件是框架内的py文件。我们可以猜测：此框架不支持返回非字符串类型对象
尝试转化datetime类型对象为字符串

 raw_time=raw_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')   

再次运行，无错误信息。