I have following data (7MB) and it's stored in transpostion.txt: {'0x2df54c975eb48346': [PovScore(Cp(+57), BLACK), 5], ...} I did try with open("transposition.txt", "r") as file: x = file.readline() transposition = eval(x) del x but the memory reaches 99% and then hangs. I did try with 1MB file, it immediately loads and set the string, but when print it's very slow (IDLE): >>> with open("testfile.txt", "r") as file: x = file.read() >>> x Squeezed text (2000 lines) json module can't parse JSON with code: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#19>", line 1, in <module> json.dumps({'a'ovScore(0,0)}) File "C:\Users\asdfs\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json\__init__.py", line 231, in dumps return _default_encoder.encode(obj) File "C:\Users\asdfs\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json\encoder.py", line 199, in encode chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True) File "C:\Users\asdfs\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json\encoder.py", line 257, in iterencode return _iterencode(o, 0) File "C:\Users\asdfs\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json\encoder.py", line 179, in default raise TypeError(f'Object of type {o.__class__.__name__} ' TypeError: Object of type PovScore is not JSON serializable Continue reading...