import json</p> <p>data = {}</p> <p>with open(‘data.txt’, ‘w’) as outfile:<br /> json.dump(data, outfile)<br />

with open(‘output.json’, ‘w’) as outfile:<br /> json.dump(data, outfile)

import json</p> <p>data = {“key”: “value”}</p> <p>with open(‘data.json’, ‘w’) as jsonfile:<br /> json.dump(data, jsonfile)<br />

with open(‘data.txt’, ‘w’) as outfile:<br /> json.dump(data, outfile)

On a modern system (i.e. Python 3 and UTF-8 support), you can write a nice file with:</p> <p>import json<br /> with open(‘data.json’, ‘w’, encoding=’utf-8′) as f:<br /> json.dump(data, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=4)</p> <p>

import json <br />     <br /> # python object(dictionary) to be dumped <br /> dict1 ={ <br />     “emp1”: { <br />         “name”: “Lisa”, <br />         “designation”: “programmer”, <br />         “age”: “34”, <br />         “salary”: “54000”<br />     }, <br />     “emp2”: { <br />         “name”: “Elis”, <br />         “designation”: “Trainee”, <br />         “age”: “24”, <br />         “salary”: “40000”<br />     }, <br /> } <br />     <br /> # the json file where the output must be stored <br /> out_file = open(“myfile.json”, “w”) <br />     <br /> json.dump(dict1, out_file, indent = 6) <br />     <br /> out_file.close()

import json <br />     <br /> # python object(dictionary) to be dumped <br /> dict1 ={ <br />     “emp1”: { <br />         “name”: “Lisa”, <br />         “designation”: “programmer”, <br />         “age”: “34”, <br />         “salary”: “54000”<br />     }, <br />     “emp2”: { <br />         “name”: “Elis”, <br />         “designation”: “Trainee”, <br />         “age”: “24”, <br />         “salary”: “40000”<br />     }, <br /> } <br />     <br /> # the json file where the output must be stored <br /> out_file = open(“myfile.json”, “w”) <br />     <br /> json.dump(dict1, out_file, indent = 6) <br />     <br /> out_file.close()