Store a dictionary in a file for later retrieval

Question

I\'ve had a search around but can\'t find anything regarding this...

I\'m looking for a way to save a dictionary to file and then later be able to load it back into

Answer 1

Two functions which create a text file for saving a dictionary and loading a dictionary (which was already saved before) for use again.

import pickle

def SaveDictionary(dictionary,File):
    with open(File, "wb") as myFile:
        pickle.dump(dictionary, myFile)
        myFile.close()

def LoadDictionary(File):
    with open(File, "rb") as myFile:
        dict = pickle.load(myFile)
        myFile.close()
        return dict

These functions can be called through :

SaveDictionary(mylib.Members,"members.txt") # saved dict. in a file
members = LoadDictionary("members.txt")     # opened dict. of members