Writing dictionary to file

[Stephen Kloder]

Gustaf Liljegren wrote:

> Hi, I'm looking for an elegant way to write a dictionary to a file. I'm not
> sure which format is suitable, but I would like each pair on a row,
> separated by a space, comma, semi-colon or something. Perhaps like this:
>
> John john at foo.com
> Greg greg at foo.com
> Fred fred at foo.com
>
> Thanks in advance,
>

To write dictionary dict to file f:

from string import join
f.write(join(map(lambda x:"%s %s"%x,dict.items()),'\n'))

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