Source: 📖 Python Cookbook ch6.2 p179

Reading and writing JSON data

The json module is used for working with JSON data. It's operation mirrors that of pickle.

import json

data = {
	'name': 'ACME'
	'shares': 100,
	'price': 542.23
}

with open('stocks.json', 'w') as f:
	json.dump(data, f)
	
with open('stocks.json', 'r') as f:
	data = json.load(f)