Easiest way to persist a data structure to a file in python?

Use the pickle module.

import pickle
d = { "abc" : [1, 2, 3], "qwerty" : [4,5,6] }
afile = open(r'C:\d.pkl', 'wb')
pickle.dump(d, afile)
afile.close()

#reload object from file
file2 = open(r'C:\d.pkl', 'rb')
new_d = pickle.load(file2)
file2.close()

#print dictionary object loaded from file
print new_d

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