Writing a dictionary to a text file?

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First of all you are opening file in read mode and trying to write into it.
Consult – IO modes python

Secondly, you can only write a string to a file. If you want to write a dictionary object, you either need to convert it into string or serialize it.

import json

# as requested in comment
exDict = {'exDict': exDict}

with open('file.txt', 'w') as file:
     file.write(json.dumps(exDict)) # use `json.loads` to do the reverse

In case of serialization

import cPickle as pickle

with open('file.txt', 'w') as file:
     file.write(pickle.dumps(exDict)) # use `pickle.loads` to do the reverse

For python 3.x pickle package import would be different

import _pickle as pickle

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