Python_Save_dict_to_pickle.md

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Author: Kaushal Krishna

Description: This notebook saves a dictionary to pickle object. Saving a dictionary using pickle is a quick and easy process. With just a few lines of code, you can store your dictionary data in a binary format that can be easily loaded later on.

References:

• Python pickle module

Input

Import libraries

import pickle

Setup Variables

• data: a dictionary containing the data to be saved in the json
• output_path: pickle output

# Inputs
data = {"name": "John Doe", "age": 30, "city": "New York"}

# Outputs
output_path = "data.pkl"

Model

Save dictionary as pickle file

Using the pickle.dump() function, the data dictionary can be saved to a pickle file.

with open(output_path, "wb") as f:
    pickle.dump(data, f)

Output

Display result

print("The pickle file has been saved to:", output_path)