save a dictionary in a file

[Dan Perl]

Maybe I am missing something, but why don't you just pickle the dictionary 
itself and instead you transform it into a list and pickle the list?  I 
don't know of any restrictions in pickling a dictionary and I do that in 
some of my code.  I actually pickle a structure of nested dictionaries (ie, 
values in the top dictionary are dictionaries themselves, some of their 
values are dictionaries, and so on).

Dan

"Luis P. Mendes" <luisXX_lupe2XX at netvisaoXX.pt> wrote in message 
news:2vsa8hF2oa58tU1 at uni-berlin.de...
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> Hi,
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> my program builds a dictionary that I would like to save in a file.
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> My question is what are the simple ways to do it?
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> The first solution I've thought of is to transform the dictionary in a
> list, with the key being the first element on that list, and the value
> as the second.  Then I could use pickle to do the write and read
> operations.  It seems simple and easy.
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> Is there a more commonly used form to do it, yet in a simple way?
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> Luis
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