# PEP 631 - Dependency specification in pyproject.toml based on PEP 508

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-631-dependency-specification-in-pyproject-toml-based-on-pep-508/5018>\
**Category:** Packaging\
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-631-dependency-specification-in-pyproject-toml-based-on-pep-508/5018 "2020-08-20T19:01:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-631-dependency-specification-in-pyproject-toml-based-on-pep-508/5018/31 "2020-09-18T08:24:07Z")

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> [@How to specify dependencies: PEP 508 strings or a table in TOML?](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-to-specify-dependencies-pep-508-strings-or-a-table-in-toml/5243/5):
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> > [@How to specify dependencies: PEP 508 strings or a table in TOML?](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-to-specify-dependencies-pep-508-strings-or-a-table-in-toml/5243/3):
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> > it would also be cool if we allowed multiline literal strings in addition to arrays to get rid of quoting and commas
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> That would be very cool, though I have no real idea what the syntactic complications of that look like in TOML.

Honestly, TOML is pretty-Python like on most fronts:

```auto
dependencies = """
a == 1.0.0
b == 2.0.0
"""

```

We can use the `textwrap.dedent` / `line.strip()` logic, allowing all the lines to be indented.

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