from l_00_inventory import inventory import json with open("l_00_inventory.json", "w") as json_out: json_out.write(json.dumps(inventory)) with open("l_00_inventory.json", "r") as json_in: json_inventory = json_in.read() print("l_00_inventory.json file:", json_inventory) print("\njson pretty version:") print(json.dumps(json.loads(json_inventory), indent=4))