[issue40059] Provide a toml module in the standard library

[Michał Górny]

New submission from Michał Górny <mgorny at gentoo.org>:

PEP 518 uses the TOML format to specify build system requirements.  AFAIU this means that all new build systems will require a TOML parser.  Could you consider adding one to the standard library to reduce the number of chicken-egg problems?

The referenced PEP states that 'pytoml TOML parser is ~300 lines of pure Python code', so I don't think integrating it would be a large maintenance cost.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 364979
nosy: brett.cannon, dstufft, mgorny, njs
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Provide a toml module in the standard library
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.9

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