import json
data = {"key": "value"}
with open('data.json', 'w') as jsonfile:
json.dump(data, jsonfile)
import json
with open('data.json', 'w') as f:
json.dump(data, f)
import json
data = {}
with open('data.txt', 'w') as outfile:
json.dump(data, outfile)
On a modern system (i.e. Python 3 and UTF-8 support), you can write a nice file with:
import json
with open('data.json', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
json.dump(data, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=4)