Writing a dict to a file with a certain format

Question

If I wanted to write a dict to a file with a specific format for each line what would be the best way to do this?

Currently I am doing:

    with open('filename', 'w') as j:
        print(dct, file = j)

But my output is, as you would expect:

    {<key>: <value>, <key>: <value>, <key>: <value>}

Is there a simple way to format the output so it reads that same dict as:

    <key> <value>
    <key> <value>
    <key> <value>

Answer 1

You could do it as follows:

def write_dict(out_dict, filename):
    with open(filename, 'w') as f:
        for key, value in out_dict.items():
            f.write('{} {}\n'.format(key, value))