Python | Convert dictionary object into string

Dictionary is an important container and used almost in every code of day-day programming as well as web-development, more it is used, more is the requirement to master it and hence knowledge of its operations is necessary.

Let’s see the different ways of changing dictionary into string.

Methods #1: Using json.dumps()

json.dumps() is an inbuilt function in json library.It has advantage over pickle because it has cross-platform support.

# Python code to demonstrate 
# to conert dictionary into string 
# using json.dumps() 
  
import json 
  
# initialising dictionary 
test1 = { "testname" : "akshat", 
          "test2name" : "manjeet", 
          "test3name" : "nikhil"} 
  
# print original dictionary 
print (type(test1)) 
print ("initial dictionary = ", test1) 
  
# convert dictionary into string 
# using json.dumps() 
result = json.dumps(test1) 
  
# printing result as string 
print ("\n", type(result)) 
print ("final string = ", result) 

Output:

<class ‘dict’>
initial dictionary = {‘testname’: ‘akshat’, ‘test2name’: ‘manjeet’, ‘test3name’: ‘nikhil’}

<class ‘str’>
final string = {“testname”: “akshat”, “test2name”: “manjeet”, “test3name”: “nikhil”}

Methods #2: Using str()

The str() function converts the specified value into a string.

# Python code to demonstrate 
# to convert dictionary into string 
# using str() 
  
# initialising dictionary 
test1 = { "testname" : "akshat", 
          "test2name" : "manjeet", 
          "test3name" : "nikhil"} 
  
# print original dictionary 
print (type(test1)) 
print ("initial dictionary = ", test1) 
  
# convert dictionary into string 
# using str 
result = str(test1) 
  
# print resulting string 
print ("\n", type(result)) 
print ("final string = ", result) 

Output:

<class ‘dict’>
initial dictionary = {‘test2name’: ‘manjeet’, ‘testname’: ‘akshat’, ‘test3name’: ‘nikhil’}

<class ‘str’>
final string = {‘test2name’: ‘manjeet’, ‘testname’: ‘akshat’, ‘test3name’: ‘nikhil’}

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