How can I use pickle to save a dict?

Question

I have looked through the information that the Python docs give, but I\'m still a little confused. Could somebody post sample code that would write a new file then use pickl

Answer 1

>>> import pickle
>>> with open("/tmp/picklefile", "wb") as f:
...     pickle.dump({}, f)
... 

normally it's preferable to use the cPickle implementation

>>> import cPickle as pickle
>>> help(pickle.dump)
Help on built-in function dump in module cPickle:

dump(...)
    dump(obj, file, protocol=0) -- Write an object in pickle format to the given file.

    See the Pickler docstring for the meaning of optional argument proto.