Merge pull request #9 from paulscherrerinstitute/JakHolzer-pickle_dump

simple pickle function to store the dict

pyzebra/app/save_load_dict.py

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+import pickle
+
+
+def save_dict(obj, name):
+    """ saves dictionary as pickle file in binary format
+    :arg obj - object to save
+    :arg name - name of the file
+    NOTE: path should be added later"""
+    with open(name + '.pkl', 'wb') as f:
+        pickle.dump(obj, f, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
+
+
+def load_dict(name):
+    """load dictionary from picle file
+    :arg name - name of the file to load
+    NOTE: expect the file in the same folder, path should be added later
+    :return dictionary"""
+    with open(name + '.pkl', 'rb') as f:
+        return pickle.load(f)