I’ve looked at tomli, I agree with its minimalist+strict philosophy, and I believe I’d be able to maintain it.
@hukkinj1, if you want to do the heavy lifting of integrating tomli into the stdlib and maintaining it there (probably along with a backport on PyPI, à la importlib_resources, I can co-maintain (i.e. advise, merge your PRs, and take over in the worst-case scenario of you disappearing).
One thing that worries me is how future versions of TOML will be supported. There’s precedent in e.g. json and pickle, but it’ll need to be in the PEP, so everyone can agree on it.
Yes. I’d pick one, and when there’s a PEP draft, ask @dustin to reserve it. (Please don’t squat by uploading a placeholder.)
That has a major disadvantage: it would break anyone using a pinned version of toml.