This is an example of using pickle to store a dictionary, we then reopen this and compare it to the original.
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| import pickle
items = {'apple': 23, 'cherry': 56, 'pear': 33}
with open('items.pickle', 'wb') as handle:
pickle.dump(items, handle, protocol=pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
with open('items.pickle', 'rb') as handle:
items2 = pickle.load(handle)
print (items)
print (items2)
print (items == items2)
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Returns:
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| {'apple': 23, 'cherry': 56, 'pear': 33}
{'apple': 23, 'cherry': 56, 'pear': 33}
True
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