Saving dictionary whose keys are tuples with json, python

Question

I am writing a little program in python and I am using a dictionary whose (like the title says) keys and values are tuples. I am trying to use json as follows

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Answer 1

If you want to load your data later on you have to postprocess it anyway. Therefore I'd just dump data.items():

>>> import json
>>> a, b, c = "abc"
>>> data = {(1,2,3):(a,b,c), (2,6,3):(6,3,2)}
>>> on_disk = json.dumps(data.items())
>>> on_disk
'[[[2, 6, 3], [6, 3, 2]], [[1, 2, 3], ["a", "b", "c"]]]'
>>> data_restored = dict(map(tuple, kv) for kv in json.loads(on_disk))
>>> data_restored
{(2, 6, 3): (6, 3, 2), (1, 2, 3): (u'a', u'b', u'c')}