How do I write JSON data to a file?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I have JSON data stored in the variable data.

I want to write this to a text file for testing so I don't have to grab the data from the server each time.

Currently, I am trying this:

obj = open('data.txt', 'wb')
obj.write(data)
obj.close

And am receiving the error:

TypeError: must be string or buffer, not dict

How to fix this?

manpreet 2 years ago

import json
with open('data.json', 'w') as outfile:
    json.dump(data, outfile)