[Tutor] passing dictionaries through a file

[Ben Finney]

"Doug Basberg" <dbasberg at comcast.net> writes:

> I would like to pass the contents of a dictionary from one program to
> another through a file.

The term for this in programming is “serialisation”, in the sense that a
specific series of bits will represent the Python value, and you want to
convert to and from that series of bits.

    <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization>

More generally, having data values persist beyond the life of a program
is termed “persistence” of the data.

> So, what is the elegant way to pass a dictionary by file?

The Python standard library has several serialisation / persistence tools.

    <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/persistence.html>

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