Provide a toml module in the standard library

[mgorny]

BPO	40059
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PRs	bpo-40059: tomllib #31498 bpo-40059: Fix installation of tomllib #31784

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[mgorny]

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/

[tirkarthi]

Relevant python-dev discussion : https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2019-May/157405.html . The format has still not reached 1.0. Issue to track the 1.0 release candidate : toml-lang/toml#698

[brettcannon]

The plan is to start discussing adding a TOML parser once the spec reaches 1.0 (which we will know about as one of the pip contributors also manages TOML).

[VA]

1.0.0-rc.1 is out by now: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md