Adopting/recommending a toml parser?

[brettcannon]

@hukkinj1

if it’s required to match toml API perfectly, then I think I prefer to not add tomli to the standard library.

It wouldn’t be.

@tiran

We cannot do (3). It would break all software that uses the toml package.

I don’t think it would break all toml users, but it is a reason to not go with that name in the stdlib.

@abravalheri

Just to clarify, I was under the impression that the proposal of adopting ‘tomli’ also included ‘tomli_w’ to write files. Is that the case?

Not necessarily.

At this point I think a PEP is necessary. I can sponsor it but I don’t have the bandwidth to be an author on it. I would review here and the issue on bugs.python.org potential concerns to address in the PEP. And to be clear, this would be a standards-track PEP and not a packaging PEP, so that means it will be going to python-dev and the SC.