Convert a python dict to a string and back

Question

I am writing a program that stores data in a dictionary object, but this data needs to be saved at some point during the program execution and loaded back into the dictionar

Answer 1

If you care about the speed use ujson (UltraJSON), which has the same API as json:

import ujson
ujson.dumps([{"key": "value"}, 81, True])
# '[{"key":"value"},81,true]'
ujson.loads("""[{"key": "value"}, 81, true]""")
# [{u'key': u'value'}, 81, True]