Question
Asked By – Juanjo Conti
I need to save to disk a little dict object whose keys are of the type str and values are ints and then recover it. Something like this:
{'juanjo': 2, 'pedro':99, 'other': 333}
What is the best option and why? Serialize it with pickle or with simplejson?
I am using Python 2.6.
Now we will see solution for issue: Pickle or json?
Answer
If you do not have any interoperability requirements (e.g. you are just going to use the data with Python) and a binary format is fine, go with cPickle which gives you really fast Python object serialization.
If you want interoperability or you want a text format to store your data, go with JSON (or some other appropriate format depending on your constraints).
This question is answered By – Håvard S
This answer is collected from stackoverflow and reviewed by FixPython community admins, is licensed under cc by-sa 2.5 , cc by-sa 3.0 and cc by-sa 4.0