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Save a dictionary

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(gaming music) - Python dictionaries are incredibly useful for storing and retrieving information, but that data is held in memory. So when the program exits, it disappears. But what if you need that dictionary again later? Your goal for this challenge is to write a function to save a Python dictionary object to file. Your safe function should take two input arguments for the dictionary to save, and an output file path. Now, saved data's only useful if you can retrieve it later, so you should also write a second function to load the saved dictionary back into Python. That load function should take a file path to the saved dictionary as its input, and then return the retrieved dictionary object. Pause the video now to create your own solution. Then I'll show you how I solve this challenge. When you need to preserve something for later, you pickle it. So that's what I did for my solution. In Python, pickling…

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