Standarize TOML?

Jason C. McDonald codemouse92 at outlook.com
Sat May 15 18:39:03 EDT 2021


During the Steering Committee presentation at PyCon, it was mentioned
that no one has formally proposed TOML be added to the standard library
(emphasis on formal). THe joke went forth that there would be a flood
of proposals to that end.

So, just to kick this off while the thought is still fresh in a bunch of
people's minds: **should we add a TOML parser to the standard library**?

The main reason this matters is to help encourage adoption of the now
PEP-standardized pyproject.toml. A few projects have cited the lack of
a standardized TOML implementation in the standard library as a reason
not to adopt pyproject.toml...and the topic thus became weirdly
political.

I understand that Brett Cannon intends to bring this up at the next
language summit, but, ah, might as well put the community two-cents in
now, hey?

I, for one, feel like this is obvious.

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Jason C. McDonald (CodeMouse92)
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