How to Save Dictionary to a file in Python?

This article helps you to get to understand three important methods of saving the dictionary in Python.

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What is dictionary?

Dictionary in Python is an unordered collection of data values, used to store data values like a map. It holds ‘key’, ‘value’ pairs.

simple dictionary is representation: {‘key1’:’value1’,….}

empty dictionary in python is {} or dict()

for example, let’s take the following dictionary to illustrate how to save it to a file:

a_dict = {'clk': 'click','cm': 'call me','cmb': 'call me back'}

keys: a_dict.keys()

dict_keys(['clk', 'cm', 'cmb'])

Using the save() function of numpy

import numpy as np
np.save(“a_dict.npy”, a_dict)

Using the dump() function of pickle

import pickle
with open(“a_dict.pkl”, “wb”) as f:
pickle.dump(a_dict,f)
f.close()

Using the dump() function of json

import json
with open(“a_dict.json”, “wb”) as t:
json.dump(a_dict,t)
f.close()

Reading the saved files respectively

read the .npy file

new_dict = np.load(‘a_dict.npy’, allow_pickle=’TRUE’)

read the .pkl file

with open(“a_dict.pkl”, “rb”) as f:
new_dict = pickle.load(f)
print(new_dict)

read the .json file

with open(“a_dictionary.json”, “rb”) as f:
new_dict = json.load(f)
print(new_dict)

Well, i believe that you learnt saving the dictionary to a file using these different methods and reading accordingly.

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