# INDEXING Python Dict - Date Issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-python-dict-date-issue/197455>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 30, 2019, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-python-dict-date-issue/197455 "2019-08-30T07:05:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![popalav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c67d28/32.png) [@popalav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/popalav)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-python-dict-date-issue/197455/1 "2019-08-30T07:05:38Z")

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Hello, i am trying to index a list of dicts(releases is a list of dicts) containing dates, but when i see the data in kibana, the dict which don't have date value ar not shown. Can you please help? Maybe if i try to index a json with the dicts, any recomandation

def elastic(releases):  
"""Indexes the data from list releases using Elastic Search """  
es = Elasticsearch(host='mycomp', port=9200)  
index = 'index7\_index\_index'  
es.indices.create(index=index)  
for entry in releases:  
es.index(index=index, doc\_type='ims\_entry', id=entry['ItemId'], body=entry)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-python-dict-date-issue/197455/2 "2019-09-27T07:05:40Z")

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Closed on September 27, 2019, 7:05am UTC

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