Write variable to file, including name

the repr function will return a string which is the exact definition of your dict (except for the order of the element, dicts are unordered in python). unfortunately, i can’t tell a way to automatically get a string which represent the variable name.

>>> dict = {'one': 1, 'two': 2}
>>> repr(dict)
"{'two': 2, 'one': 1}"

writing to a file is pretty standard stuff, like any other file write:

f = open( 'file.py', 'w' )
f.write( 'dict=" + repr(dict) + "\n' )
f.close()