spacepy.toolbox.savepickle

spacepy.toolbox.savepickle(fln, dict, compress=None)[source]

save dictionary variable dict to a pickle with filename fln

Parameters:
flnstring

filename

dictdict

container with stuff

compressbool
write as a gzip-compressed file

(.gz will be added to fln). If not specified, defaults to uncompressed, unless the compressed file exists and the uncompressed does not.

See also

loadpickle

Examples

>>> d = {'grade':[1,2,3], 'name':['Mary', 'John', 'Chris']}
>>> savepickle('test.pbin', d)